Judsonia weekly advance., 1922-01-12
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 Now, what is the farmer asklng7 Without trying to catalogue the re- medial measures that have been sug- gested In his behalf, the principal pro- posals thst bear directly on the i'm provement of his distributing and mar keting relations may be summarized as follows :-
 First: storage warehouses for cot ton, wool. and tobacco, and elevators for grain, of sufficient capacity to meet the maximum demand on them at the beak of the marketing period. The farmer thinks that either private capi- tai must furnish these facilities, or the state must erect and own the eleva- tors and warehouses.
 Second: weighing and grading of agricultural products, and certification thereof, to be done by impartial and dislnterested public inspectors (this Is already accomplished to some extent by the federal licensing of weighers and graders), to eliminate underpay- ing overcharging, and unfair grading, and to facilitate the utiliZat ton of the stored products as the basis of credit.
 Third certainty of credit sufficient to enable the marketing of products in an orderly manner.
 Fourth: the Department of Agrlcul- ture should collect. tabuate, summa- rize, and regularly and frequently pub fish and distribute to the farmers full information from all the markets of the world. so that they shall be as well informed of their selling position as buyers now are of their buying posi- tion.
 Fifth: freedom to integrate the busi- ness of agriculture by means of con solidated selling agencies, co-ordinat- ing and cooperating in such way as to put the farmer on an equal footing with the large buyers of his products, and with commercial relations In other industries.
 When business requires specialized talent, It has to buy 1t. So will the farmers; and perhaps the best way for them to get 1t would be to utilize some of the present machinery of the larg- est established agencies dealing In farm products. Of course, If he wishes, the farmer may go further and engage in four-milling and other manufactures of food products. In my opinion however, he would be wise to stop short of that. Public interest may be opposed to all great integratlons; but, in justice should they be forbidden to the farmer and permitted to others :? The corporate form of association can not now be wholly adapted to his ob- Jects and conditions. The looser CO., operative form seems more generally suitable. Therefore, he wishes to be free, If he finds 1t desirable and feas- ible, to resort to co ooperation with hfs fellows and neigb5ors, without run ming afoul of the law. To urge that the farmers should have the same lib- erty to consolidate and coordinate their peculiar economic functions, which other industries in their fields enjoy, Is not, however, to concede that any business integration should have legislative sanction to exercise monop- olistic power. The American people are as firmly opposed to industrial as to political autocracy, whether at- tempted by rural or by urban industry.
 For lack of united effort the farmers as a whole are still marketing their crops by antiquated methods or by no methods at all, but they are surrounded by a business world that has been modernized to the last minute and is tirelessly striving for efficiency. This efficiency Is due In large measure to big business, to united business, to in- tegrated business. The farmers now seek the benefits of such largeness, un- ion and integration.
 The American farmer Is a modern of the moderns in the use of labor saving machinery, and he has made vast strides in recent years in scientific tillage and efficient farm management but as business in contact with other businesses agriculture is lone horse shay, in competition with high power automobiles. The American farmer is the greatest and most intractable of individualists. While industrial pro duction and all phases of the huge com mercial mechanism and its myriad ac. cessories have articulated and co-ordi. ural raw materials to retail safes, the business of agriculture has gone on in much the one man fashion of the back woods of the first part of the nine teenth century, when the farmer wal