Evening star., 1922-01-01
RESTORE PROSPERITY TO AMERICA
BY MAKING FARMERS PROSPEROUS.
PROGRAM OF SECRETARY WALLACE
No Selfish Purpose
in Aims to Help
Tiller of Soil.
ALI Interests Are Hurt
When Price Levels
Are Inequitable.

cultural production makes necessary.
3. Improvement in marketing meth
DDS through the organization Of CO.
operative associations should be per-
mitted and encouraged.
4. Farm products should be trans
ported at the lowest possible costs
consistent with the maintenance and
satisfactory operation OF the trans
porting agencies.
5. The collection Of statistical in
formation as to production and con-
sumption Of agricultural products at
home and abroad shohld be greatly
extended and made more generally
available. Also. as far as can be
done safely. such information should
be interpreted with a view to bring
ing about a better balanced and there
fore more stable production Of crops
and live stock.
s. The extension Of cultivated land
should not be encouraged until care
full survey has made plain the prac-
ticability Of establishing a profitable
farming or live stock enterprise
There should be a decided tightening
up Of our policies Of land settlement,
including those dealing with reclama-
ton projects.
Z. Painstaking study OF the costs
of production and marketing Of farm
crops is necessary preliminary to
the reduction of such costs. This
study should be made all along the
line from the farm to the consumers
table.
S. A better understanding of the
forces which influence prices is very
much to be desired and is necessary
to the Intelligent adjustment Of pro-
duction to the needs of consumption.
9. A reaso nable margin Of safety
for our peorle requires rate Of pro-
duction which in good years will re-
suit in a surplus. The prompt dis
position Of such surplus is a condi-
this end there should be systematic
and constant study of foreign mar
kets.
10. Heretofore large production
has been without regard to the pos
sible exhaustion of the fertility Of the
soil, which is our greatest national
material asset. A system of land
tenure which leads to an involuntary
conspiracy between landlord and
tenant to impoverish tho soil is q
public menace. Tenancy Of itself Is
not necessarily an evil, but tho in
evitable and logical result OF high
land values. Our task is to promote
system Of tenure which will pro-
tect the public interest without doing
injustice to either landlord or tenant
II. Federal supervision Of such in
stitutions as public stock yards and
market agencies, grain exchanges and
the like is not only expedient, but
very necessary to the efficient and i'm
partial functioning Of such institu-
tions, and should result in benefit
alike to the agencies themselves. the
farmers who furnish the raw ma
terials and the consuming public.
That gives the platform. on which
Secretary Wallace IS working as q
cabinet member and as director gen.
eral of the great army Of paid and
volunteer agricultural experts-to
make all business and industry safe
and stable and profitable. BY putting
the basic industry. agriculture. on q
profitable and stable foundation.
And now for a couple Of particular
Of how this general
policy is being carried out-in count
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ricultural economics is being organ
lied out Of the three existing bureaus
crop estimates and farm
management-and Congress is going
to be asked to order oficially such a
and CO coordination, begin
ming July next. OF direct interest
to business men are such activities Of
this consolidated bureau as: Collec-
tion and dissemination of crop news
conditions. Yields; collection
and dissemination Of market news
supplies. movement, prices; compila-
ton, tabu1ation ana Interpretation of
statistics through long series of
years-facts. trends and tendencies
Of farm products and
their containers-mandato permis-
sive, tentative Cotton, grain. live
stock and meats, fruits and vegeta-
bles); inspection service-mandatory
and voluntary Cotton. grain, ware
house. perishables): storage investi-
gations-amounts. movements. costs, |
licensing: studies OF
market places and market buildings
types. plans, establishment. mainte-
nance: cost studies-production and
marketing; correlation Of crop and
market work being done by the
states-to prevent duplication Of
work and conservation of funds:
Of work Of domestic wool
section Of the War Industries Board;
study of foreign production-supply,
demand, surpluses and
deficits.
The reorganization Of these three
bureaus into one Is the result Of Sec
retary wallace's determination to
all the forces Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture engaged In
economic work into one fighting unit
to attack the economic evils that have
brought about the present serious sit
uation in American agriculture.
In the bureau of chemistry was re-
Gently established a special service to
take the scientific discoveries and de-
velopments. have them worked out to
a practical commercial scale and then
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