The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-02-16

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help greatly towards their present dil.
ficulties.
Credit.-Farmers want more credit
at lower rate of interest. Following
are some of the suggestions on thu
subject: Long time loans; extend
. credit to foreign countries; reduced
rate of interest; less red tape in land
bank loans; raise the limit Of loan by
land banks: loan direct to individuals
by land banks without creating an as
ISOLATION; more general information
on the plan of lannd banks and cut
down the time necessary to secure loan
lone farmer reports six months past
since his application and no results;
with his loan having been approved
by the appraisers; AID practically all
who mentioned this subject complain
ed OF the time required to secure 4
ioan)
Prices-Missouri farmers demand 4
readjustment to fit supply prices.
They are willing that the farmers pay
as much as any other producer but
no more. These suggestions are
made: Fair prices: better prices of
farm products and lower rates for
what they buy; retailers and manufac-
turers should be satisfied with short
err margin of profit; cut out profit
teering; buy direct; cut out commits
sions; land some even 20 so far as
to ask for curtailing the number of
travelling salesmen); reduce the retail
price of meat; uniform prices are ask
ed for; in the southern section; but
terfat and poultry are mentioned as
the only items bringing ready cash; a
suggestion is made that since prices
are low. production must be lowered
to keep down losses and that farmers
must buy less; good crops at reas-
enable prices are better than poor
crops at high prices"
= Marketing.-Practically all farmers
agree that the present marketing sys-
TEN is too expensive and that it costs
too much for farmers of the central
states to get their products to the pri-
mary markets. These are the out
standing suggestions: Bring producer
and consumer together; cut out the
better grading with grad
ual and orderly marketing of grain
and live stock; wider markets; also
opening of foreign markets; farmer to
handle his product from the farm to
the consumer, thereby lessening the
spread and reduce the difference be-
tween what the farmer sells and what
he buys; teach better marketing and
not so much production; too much is
paid in commissions and there are too
many distributors and too many retail
stores.
Economy.-Missouri farmers advo"
cate the strictest economy in both pri-
vate and public affairs; cut out all
uxuries, live simply and 60 the limit
n economy; they suggest reduction
IN the pay rolls of big business and
get back to economical living; many
advise against the buying of automo-
oiles and tractors, but bend all efforts
toward getting ou of debt; suggested
that farmers quit grumbling and Civ
ng advice to everybody else and that
ideas during the war were
harmful and that all people practice
thrift and that many of them are now
living beyond their means; some farm
RS advise selling what is ready for the
market, put their land in clover and
ouy nothing.
What tie Government can do in the
wide range and are given, just as they
appear: Put a high tariff on all i'm
ported grain and live stock, vegeta-
lie oils, and poultry products; shut
out cheap labor and high tariff on
heir products; lower taxes and cut
iown government expenses; improve
waterways and operate to full capa-
;ity; remove excess profits tax; stop
speculation in farm products; govern
nent operation of packing plants; join f:
he League of Nations; help to stable
re world conditions; disarm and turn
into agriculture imple-
nents; pass pure fabric law; have
lever laws and these better enforced;
lever lawyers in the legislature and
Congress-; create better understand
ng of taxation; cancel all war debts
o governments or individuals; loan
postal savings direct to the farmers;
operate the nitrate plants and supply
plenty of fertilizer; lower taxes ON
land and increase the rate on mort
cages, money and city property; is
sue no more taxfree bonds; blue-sky
laws against ,swindlers; create more
in the government; divorce
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