The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-08-30

: gogic appeal of some of the push
the-button schemes, but it viii
I wear well and from year to yeal
will make agriculture more and
more a successful business in.
dustry.
Promotes Organized Marketing
The farm bill, now a law, pro
poses to introduce into the mar
keting of farm products the sys-
tenn which has made large indus
try prosperous. 1t proposes to
give to the farmer something he
has never had before, organized
marketing adequately financed.
The system is so designed and
planned that, while practically
complete control is left with the
farmer himself, his management
is surrounded with such safe
guards that he will have in a de-
pendable way the kind of help and
advice that will enable him, no
matter how big the business
grows, to have at all times the
benefit of the best business advice
the government can bring to his
aid.
In saying that it will take time
to put this program into effect it
is not intended to convey the idea
that the farmer is to be left in his
present p~redicament unaided and
with no quick means of relief. In
all probability the benefits of the
plan will be forthcoming faster
than the farmers can organize to
use them.
There are numerous features of
the new law which will contribute
to rapid relief, but in a general
way the new program is more de-
signed to build a permanent agri-
cultural prosperity than it is to
be an immediate lifesaver and
nothing else.
Can Stabilize Wheat Situation
For instance, there is little
doubt but that the farm board,
with it's immense financial back
ing, can stabilize the wheat stu
alton to an appreciate degree by
going into the market to buy and
thus bring a measure of quick re-
lief to the wheat farmer that he
has never. had before. But if this
is all it could do, it would con-
tribute little or nothing to the
permanent remedying of the wheat
situation. The development of our
derby marketing, not for this year,
but as a regular national system;
the complete elimination of mar
ket dumping and doing away with
demoralizing speculation will aid
the wheat grower in a permanent
way, and this the new program
is designed to do effectively.
However, it is in the organiza-
ton of all farmers into cooper
ative associations, teaching them
to become cooperative business
men, so that the organizations
become efficient and disciplined,
that the future Of farm production
and marketing is to have. it's most
effective assistance. The farm
board with it's great powers and
ample finances is going to be able
to lend this assistance in greater
measure than ever before was
contemplated.
Discipline Only Surplus Check
The history of cooperative or
ganization among the farmers
shows that farmers ebcome better
business, both as to production
and marketing, as the organiza-
tons are perfected and as the
farmers go through that training
is necessary to make the
organization a success. The new
law as it operates will gradu-
ally bring all the farmers of the
nation into n or cooper
alive marketing units. The farm
will not only be helped by
orderly and scientific marketing,
out he will be trained in a bust
way during the process.
The problem of handling surplus
production probably can never be
solved except as the farmer him
'elf is disciplined. When he dis
himself, the ideal situation
zones to pass. Effective cooper
tive organizations built on a
national scale, ably and
guided, amply financed,
will contribute to that education
IS to what to produce and when
o produce it, with accompanying
raining and discipline such that
here will come to be a measure
f production control we'll calcu-
ated to make it possible for the
board, with it's other means
valuable, to effectively stabilize
1arkets.
The Hoover farm plan has great
disabilities but it will take a lit
lie time to get under way. The
argest factor contributing to its
uccess will be cooperation by the
armers themselves.
Farmers Must Cooperate
If they approach the program in
he right spirit, join hands to help
and assist it with loyalty, it has
much better chance to develop
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