Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26

| President Coolidge has vetoed the
McNary- Haugen bill for farm aid
There is no problem of economics
more important than that of food pro
| duction. American agriculture has
made serious demands upon the Gov.
/ eminent for Federal financing. claim
| ing that it is impossible for the farm
ers themselves to market their crops
in an orderly" therefore profitable,
manner. Whatever may be the merits
of that controversial question. 1t is IN
teresting to note that similar problems
have confronted our neighbors in Can
ada, with considerably less agitation
for artificial government help. Even
while American farmerS-or at least
their political guardians-are COM
planning of financial failure. the Ca
| madam Pacific Railroad published a
survey of farm prosperity in Canada,
and reports that 1.-THE agricultural sit
uation in the Dominion could not be
more encouraging"
| Making full allowances for the fact
that the railroad companys own in
terests are enhanced by encouraging
settlement along the lines, whereby
freight is created. the bulletin issued
by the company is filled with Stats
tics and other facts. which tend to
prove the conclusions drawn that 1t
is possible to be farmer and be
happy.
Following the World War and the
depression caused by lessening of the
strain to produce food for the unpro-
ducing armies. Canada suffered as did
America and many other countries.
But the new bulletin adds:
THE British market. due to the very
disturbed condition Of that country.
has been very uncertain and extreme
ly unsatisfactory in the past year from
the point of view of the beef cattle pro-
Queer. There is every confidence, how
ever. that this is a passing phase, and,
with improving industrial conditions.
there is every expectation that 1877
will make a better showing.
THE British Columbia apple situa-
ton has been, too, little disturb
ing, due to the lack of satisfactory
marketing organization. Recent CO.
operation for this purpose. however.
gives better prospects of success.
Canada now has had three fairly pros
porous successive years in agriculture
and it Is generally conceded by farm
ers that conditions are about normal.
The financial condition of the agricul-
tural population is unqueStionably bet
ter than it has been for many years.
Considerable new acreage Is
to be expected in 1927 accountable to
the substantial agricultural immigra-
ton In 1926
Another bulletin issued by the same
authority, the G.. r. r., discusses the
success of Canada in settling veterans
of the World War upon land, and,
when necessary, aiding them with
cash loans to develop their farms into
profitable enterprises. There can be
no severer test of agricultural posi-
bilities than that of placing men mex
perienced in practical agriculture
upon wild land, with limited tools and
limited capital, and demanding that
they make living and pay back the
financial advances. Mexico processes
to have relieved the peon distress by
confiscating without compensatory
the large land holdings. and dividing
the acres among the iliiterate poems
with neither tools nor credit. The ex-
pertinent has been a failure. as 1t was
bound to be. for farming requires
capital, brains and Drawn. But. &C.
cording to the Canadian report, more
than 80, 900 former soldiers were placed
upon prairie land in northwestern
Canada under the laws of 1917 and
1919 More than $4,000 received loans
for the start, while $500 required no
loans
Last year there were 1881 OF those
soldiers whose annual payments We're
due. OF that number S.4S9 paid in
fun, 6.9oN made partia. pay III nts am, :
4,54l made prepa yments in advance of ,
their obligations. The soldiers paid