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Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture

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ton movement and the reasons which
| lmpel individualistic independent,
, isolated farmers to join in it.
(l4) Ask for speakers from farm
organizations, the State agricultural
| college. and the Federal Department
of Agriculture to address the Cham
Der of Commerce on some of the i'm
portant phases Of agriculture, OF
some big agricultural problem, or
some program for agricultural bet
terment.
Cl5) Get the members of the
chamber of commerce and city peo-
pie generally to realize that the ac-
tivlties OF the Federal and State
Governments on behalf of agricul-
ture are not solely for the benefit of
farmers, as so many city people err
roneously believe, but are for the
benefit OF the country as a whole.
16) Kill off the faIlacE that it
is immoral for farmers to adjust
their production to the probably de-
mand by curtailing particular
crop in the face of a present or pros
pectIVe OYersupply and ruinousIy low
priceS-a thing manufacturers have
been doing from the beginning of
time.
90 Another fallacy that merits
attention is the belief on the part of
many people that agriculture has
been favored with special legisla-
ton, whereas much of the Federal
and State legislation on our Statute
books has been framed without re-
rH fn tho iDc inf
pecially legislation with respect to
banking, financing transportation
tariff and taxation
(18) When any subject is up for
consideration or discussion before
the chamber of commerce involving
production, marketing, distribution,
legislation, transportation, financing
taxation education sanitation, or
city, county or state improvement of
any kind, give serious consideration
to the probable effect any proposed
measure may have on agriculture,
bearing in mind that whatever af-
fects agriculture adversely will soon
er or later have a similar effect on
the business and welfare Of the city.
90 Cultivate friendly coop
erative relations between the cham
Der of commerce and the farmers of
the county, especially with farm or
CARNATIONS, to the end that city peo-
pie and country people may under
stand that they have certain vital in
terests in common and that they can
be mutually helpful.
This is only a partial list of the
subjects an agricultural committee
of chamber of commerce might
proftably consider
So far l have emphasized the i'm
portance of immediate systematic eff
fort by chamber of commerce, bust
ness men and city people to acquire
a clear and sympathetic understand
ing OF the business OF farming and
of farmers and their intimate and
fundamental relation to the pros
perity and welfare of other lines of
business. 1t is equally important
that farmers should realize the in
Independence of agriculture and
other industries. Farmers need to
have brought home to them real
iZation of the fact that they are de-
pendent for market for their sur
plus products upon the prosperity,
the buying power, the steady employ
ment, the efficiency and the welfare
of the bulk of the population living
in cities and that they in turn can
not promote their own interest by,
espousing any cause or advocating
and supporting legislation which
will affect other industries and city
consumers adversely. Chambers of