Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-11-21
FARM WELFARE
FORTUNE OF ALL
Warns Against Planter Failing
TO Level of Peasant
CITES FUTURE PROBLEMS
Tells Land Grant Colleges Producer
Has Need OF Scientific Market
ino-sussr Production
Short.

Warrington. ~ Maintenance Of the
American superior level Of human
COMFORT and well-being will require
thst our agriculture be made and kept
the most efficient in the world" Presi-
i.ent Coolidge said in an address be-
lore 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 e UP or down with the farm
ers, and warned against permitting
tsour farming population to fail to the
level Of a mere agricultural peas
antry"
The "real problem Of our long
future" Mr., Coolidge said is "the
problem Of maintaining a prosperous,
self-reliant, confident agriculture in a
country preponderantly commercial
and Industrial"
In this connection the President
continued:
at has been attested by all expert
ence that agriculture tends to dis.
couragsment and decadence whenever
the predominant interests Of a coun-
try turn to manufacture and trade.
We must prevent that in America.
at 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
alongside prosperous industries and
successful commerce. But these are
found where the population is ap-
proximately static and the community
apparently self-contained
"It Is not our destiny to be a com
munity Of that kind. We must look
forward to iong-continuing increase
Of population. We must realize that
our relationships with the outside
world. already enormously important,
increase in number. complexity
a 3 Importance in their influence on
our social structure"
The President pointed out that the
present-day farmer 'is not only a pro
ducer-he is, likewise, a merchant
and then added.
It,dpss bSaksio good to get quantity
prodnctioH isGt.- it may do him
harm unless he can likewise have
scientific marketing. l feel that too
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 animal
husbandry. The agricultural problem
Of today is not on the side Of produc.
tion but on the side of distribution.
| want to see good farmer on a
good farm raise good crop and Sc
cure good price"
Mr.. Coolidge laid emphasis on the
assertion that I'VE are not nearly a
generation ahead Of the time when our
country will witness a reversal in its
relation to world agriculture" Within
"a very few years" he said, 'the
United States will be among the ma
tions producing a deficit rather than a
surplus of agricultural staples" The
artificial stimulation of the World
War, he asserted. came when the
country was fairly on the verge Of
that condition"
The President continued:
Even today If in making up our
balance sheet we include our require
ments of coffee. tea, sugar and wool
we already have a considerable agri-
cultural deficit 1t may not be gen
orally known. but even now we con-
sumo more cslories of food than we
produce The main reason is that we
do not raise near enough sugar
"our only agricultural exports Of
consequence are cotton, meat products
and wheat; and as to the two latter it
must be plain that the scales will
shortly turrAAgainst us. We shall be
not only an agricultural importing ma
tion, but in the lives of many who are
now among us we are likely to be one
OF the greatest of the agricultural buy
ing nations"