Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-01
MEET FOR AGRICULTURE
RELIEF ON JANUARY 10
Secretary Wallace Presses
Work OIL Farm Conference
Preliminaries.
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situation and. laying down of perm
anent policy for development Of a
self-sustaining agriculture are to re-
suit from the national agricultural
| conference to be called by Secretary
Wallace at the request OF President
Harding.
The conference. II was indicated
today. probably would meet about
January Is In Washington. Farmers
and representatives of correlated
lines interested in farmers products
VIII make up the personnel OF the
conference. which. II was said today,
would number between 100 and $50.
Farmers organizations. manufac-
turers Of farmers products, transpor-
,ation interests. marketing agencies,
shipping interests, fertilizer manu-
facturcrs. farm implement manu-
facturcrs, packers. State agriculture
and State agriculture college rep
resentatires. cotton, grain, live stock.
fruit commission men, experts on
rural school problems and bankers
are expected To be included in the
membership of the conference. An
official OF the Agriculture Depart
ment today asserted that the confer
ence. in finding measures for reliev-
Ing the distress Of the farmers.
would at the Same time be reviving
business of all lines through restor-
alton OF the farmers purchasing
power!
Complete List OF Delegates.
Secretary Wallace and his advisers
worked hard today, completing n list
OF those who Will be asked to the
conference. Special attention was
give, To each prospective name In
order to get the best qualified and
most constructive membership pos
sible from national standpoint.
The conference, 1t was indicated
authoritatively. will first meet and
map out its own program of work.
IT was suggested that the members
probably would then divide them
selves into committees along lines OF
production, transportation, manufac-
turing. marketing, and these in turn
would have subcomittees on each Of
the agricultural products. such Il
wheat. corn. cotton. tobacco, fruit and
the like.
Scope Made Lnrge.
Questions OF transportation agri-
culture financing, utilization OF land
! resources, forestry, policies on land
leasing. which would include con-
tracts and rents, various aspects of
marketing, including statistics. ware
housing and terminal developments
and rural school life, in the opinion
OF Agriculture Department officials,
probably will be on the program OF
the conference.
Policies respecting more efficient
production and involving control of
animal and plant diseases. 1t Is
thought. will evolve from the con-
ference deliberations. This would in
clude new national policy for fight
ing the bollweevil, which worked
such disastrous results in many sec
tons OF the cotton belt last year. and
for eradication of the corn-borer,
| which has appeared on the edge of
the corn belt.
To Work With Congress Committee.
The conference. 1t was explained,
Will work in the fullest harmony and
| cooperation with the Joint congress
sional committee which has been in
restigating agricultural problems.
Chairman Anderson and his COL
leagues. it was said, undoubtedly
| will be invited to sit in the confer
ence and give the delegates the benc-
Mt OF their opinions in graphing with
the problems which will come before
them.
While preparations for the confer
ence were being made today, the
Farmers National Council. through
its headquarters here. issued a state
ment. which, in part. said:
The Presidents proposed confer
cncc OF farming interests plus the in
tercsts related thereto, that is, in
tercsts which have exploited agricul-
ture. will doubtless be the same sort
of bluff and fraud as the Prcsi-
dents conference on unemployment
and the Presidents conference on the
limitation OF ornaments"
New Boil WecyIl wnr Methods.
Possibility of new policy to be
followed in fighting the boil wecvil
as a result OF the national conference
on agriculture soon to be called by
Secretary Wallace was suggested here
today in official quarters.
The conference, II was said I'M
doubtedly would name committee
on cotton which would consider ways
and means OF more effectively COM
batting the boil weevil, which pro-
duced widespread damage in portions
of the cotton belt last season. The
Weevil in It's march through the belt
has reached the borders of North
Carolina. and cotton men here today
said that some more effective means
of fighting the pest was necessary.
Conditions in those sections of tho
belt which have been ravaGcd by the
wccvii, il was Indicated, will be laid
before the conference, the delegates
To which will haze all the experience
and expert knowledge of the govern
ment on this subject placed at their
disposal.
Substitute Crops Proposed.
Crops to be produced In sections Of
the cotton States where the weeviI
is so numerous ms to mako growing