The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-11-21
FARM WELFARE
FORTUNE OF ALL
Waras Against Planter Failing
% Level of Peasant
CITES FUTURE PROBLEMS
Tells Land Grant Colleges Producer
Has Need OF Scientific Market
inq-sugar Production
Short.

Washington. - Maintenance of the
American superior level of human
comfort and well-being will require
that our agriculture be made and kept
the most efficient In the world" Presi-
dent Coolidge said in an address be-
fore a meeting of the Association OF
Land Grant Colleges.
The President emphasized the point
that ..the fortunes of all of us will in
the end go UP or down" with the farm
ers, and warned against permitting
sour farming population to fall to the
level of "a mere agricultural peas
entry."
The .real problem of our long
future" Mr.. Coolidge said, is 1.-THE
problem of maintaining a prosperous,
selfsreliant, confident agriculture In
country preponderantly commercial
and Industrial
In this connection the President
continued:
at has been attested by all expert.
ence that agriculture tends TO dis
couragement and decadence whenever
the predominant interests Of a coun
try turn to manufacture and trade.
We must prevent that in America.
sIt is true there are some countries
in which the balance Of these elements
has been so well maintained that agri
culture has continued to flourish
aiongsfde prosperous industries and
successful commerce. But these are
found where. the population is ap
proximate1y static and the community
apparently self-contained.
sit is not our destiny to be a com
munity of that kind. We must look
forward to a long-continuing increase
of population. We must realize that
our relationships with the outside
world. already enormously important
will increase in number, completely
and Importance in their influence on
our social structure"
The President pointed out that the
present.day farmer sis not only pro
ducer-he is, likewise, merchant
and then added:
cit does him no good to get quantity
production - it fact, it may do him
harm unless he can likewise have
scientific marketing. I feel that toe
little thought has been given to this
most important phase of agriculture
81 want to see courses in co-opera
tive marketing and farm economics
alongside of soil chemistry and anima
husbandry. The agricultural problem
of today is not on the side of produc
ton but on the side of distribution
want to see good farmer on 6
good farm raise a. good crop and Sc
cure good price,"
Mr. Coolidge laid emphasis on the
assertion that 1--WE are not nearly
generation ahead of the time when oul
country will witness a reversal in It'll
relation to world agriculture" Within
"a very few years." he said, "ths
United States will be among-the ma
lions producing deficit rather than
SUI Plus VI d6IlCuAIuA al OIdPiOo. AS
artificial stimulation of the World
War, he asserted, came when the
country was fairly on the verge o.
that condition"
The President continued:
"Even today if in making up oul
balance sheet we include our require
ments of coffee, tea, sugar and WOO
we already have considerable agri
cultural deficit. 1t may not be gen
orally known, but even now we con
sumo more calories of food than we
produce. The main reason is that We
do not raise near enough sugar.
sour only agricultural exports O
consequence are cotton, meat product!
and wheat; and as to the two latter i
must be plain that the scales will
shortly turn against US. We shall b.
not only an agricultural importing ma
ton, but in the lives of many who arr
now among us we are likely to be on'
of the greatest of the agricultural buy
Ing nations"