The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-01-26
FARM RESEARCH
HELD NECESSITY
IN COMP PETlTI0N
U. S. Must Match Superior
knowledge to Cheap Labor of
Europe, Speaker Says
WANT FREIGHT RATES CUT
Subcommittee Urges That Rates
on Agricultural Products
Be Reduced

washington, Jan. 26.--If American
agriculture is to succeed in competi-
tion with the skill, natural resources
and cheaper labor Of ether countries
I'VE must depend upon our superior
knowledge" Raymond Pearson, presi-
dent of Iowa State College of Agricul-
ture, told the, National Agricultural
College today in plea for increased
agricultural research.
New methods for reducing cost of
production, better distribution Iof farm
products and better methods Of mar
keting are sorely needed at this time,
he said, adding that "such methods
will help to reduce the cost of liv-
ing"
Utilization OF scientific research in
promotion of a sound agricultural pol
icy was considered. Three set ad-
dresses concluded the formal program
the remaining portion cf the confer
ence being given over to committee REL
ports and their consideration.
Discuss Bloc.
While the conference was in session
delegates continued to discuss form
ally the matter of bringing before the
conference the resolution endorsing
the agricultural bloc in Congress.
Other resolutions were in process Of
formulation.
The need of a greater food supply
for an increasing population was out
lined by Dr.. Ball, of the department
of agriculture. He declared there was
no over-producti(tl now Iblls there
was under consumption.
The United States is approaching a
condition of adverse food balance and
must decide the question of proper ra-
ito Of industr.." and agriculture.
"The nations balance between the
two fields of endeavor will be lost"
he warned, ''unless the tendency to-
ward industrial dominance is made
one Of the major problems for national
consideration"
Clifford Pinchot, of PENNSYLVANIA,
the needs for nc.tional'
'orestry policy drew applause when
he told the delegates there ''is
group OF men up here on the field.
most of them not farmers;;ewho have
won the everlasting gratitude of every
farmer in the U S. for what they have
done for them"
Want Rates Cut.
Reduction of freight rates on farm
products and products of allied indus
tries and by both railroad corpora
tions and labor OF "defatiOn of
charges now affecting all industries"
was recommended in the railway
subcommittee report
early today for submission
to the transportation committee of the
agricultural conference.
The committee declared labor
should not carry the whole reduction
but that the railroads should take
their whole share, saying the railroads
made $6OO,000,000 profit last year
when farmers lost seven billion dol
lars
The committee also recommended
by congress of authority
to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to fix valuation of real estate
held by the railroads at more than its
actual cost or more than the value Of
similar adjoining lands in making up
the capital account Of. the railroads.
recommendations it was declared,
should be made to the Interstate Com
merce Commission that the present
relation between the charges for long
and short hauls in the inter-mountain
region be not disturbed.