New Britain herald., 1928-11-17
FARM ISSUES ARE
 TOLD BY COOLIDGE
President Discusses Problems in
 Speech to Grange

Washington. Nov 17 P-Cooper- ative marketing was stressed last night by President Coolidge in an address delivered before the Ma tional Grange in which he reviewed the problems of the farmer and de- scribed as hazardous" proposals of q subsidy which he said the Ameri
 can people would not pay for any length of time.
 At the same time, MT. Coolidge told the farm representatives that any attempt at price fixing on farm products or the entry of the govern ment into business would prove fa- tai to agriculture. Assistance neces- sary to render the cooperative ef
 fort more effective through a board it's soundness in it's experimental stage might we'll be provided by the national government. he said,
 Declaring that no government ever gave an industry more aid than agriculture has received in this country, the president said that fur ther improvement in the farmers condition would come from more scientific production and above alll from a wider application of the CO., operative principle.
 Thanks to the most impressive list of government efforts in be- half of agriculture, he added. "the great agricultural depression has been gradually relieved. In 1921 the purchasing power of farm products had dropped to 69. Tn October of this year it had risen to 90. The live stock industry is especially prosper ous, but grain prices are not so en- couraging. Yields per acre for this season were about 3 per cent apove average for the last 10 years while the acreage of crops harvested was the largest of record. This gives very definite assurance of an ln- creased gross income for agriculture as a whole.
 Tt Is apparent that the farmer has become very well schooled m the art of production. But further advances will be made through the use of improved machinery, ana oi improved breeds of stock. more scientific cultivation, and the ellml- nation of all wastefui methods which will reduce the cost and 1n- crease the quality of production- The farmer who can proceed in these o'- rections is on solid fouhdalloh with every assurance of success
 ''rhe lesson which has not yet been 50 we'll learned is that Of mar keting. One of the greatest hahal- caps of agriculture is temporary overproduction. The world IS nun rrv to consume all that the farmer ever raises. His difficulty arises from attempting to sell at ,he wrong time or the wrong place. ne most successful method of meeting thi. difficulty has been through CO., operative associations. They nave enabled agriculture in a large way fo take better advantage ot II the axencies of distribution, the panhers' the carriers. the commission her- rhantx the packers. and the mlllers. This is a movement to unlfy all the agencies of production. distribution and consumption, so that they can function as a coordinated whole which will sell at the right place and at the right time. A fine ex- ample of this is the grade exchange recently established in California
 This movement toward coopera- time marketing is still in it's lnfan- cy. It has sometimes failed through lack of management, but it is sound In theory, and when conducted Tn businesslike way offers the most promising solution to the great marketing problem. It avoids any attempt at price fixing or putuing the government into business, both of which would be fatal to the lnde- pendence of the farmer and Tn the end would bring disaster. It llke- wise avoids the hazardous proposal pf . subsidy, which the American people would never be willing 10 pay for any length of time. It rests nn the sound merchandising prlncl- ole of taking the product and dis posing of it in the most advantage ous way that shrewd and orderly afford. Such further as- sistance as is necessary to render this effort more effective through settinS up a board for its admins tration, supplied with sufflclenl Sunds to demonstrate it's soundn"ss