The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-06-26
FARMER AIDED BY
new TARIFF LAW
Farm Federation Finds Agri-
culturiSt Receives Best
Treatment In Act
CLOSE STUDY OF BILL
Adding Raw Farm Materials
to List Wipes Out Old
Inequalities
CLOSE STUDY OF BILL

w ohS 80 AN ~NS>
tional office of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, largest farm
organization in the country, toda!
announced the results of its stud.
of the new tariff law.
Assuming that a farmer furnish
ing raw material is benefited
through the establishment of bet
ter market for the product mad'
from the raw material, the Farm
Bureau Federation finds in it's com
pilation of rates and figures af
fecting the whole bill that agricul
ture is better protected under thu
new law than is industry.
I'm fact, from this point of view
agricultural products now stant
S12 points better protected than il
industry" the statement says.
The statement is an exhaustive
one covering many pages and goe:
into the rates of the new law il
greater detail than any Statement
or analysis yet issued by any or
ganization.
Following are the highlights O.
the federation findings:
Increase of protection on
farm products in new law COM
pared to old law is 11.57 points.
Increase of protection in in
dustrial products in new law
compared to old law is 5.48
points.
Per cent of increase for farm
products is SIG as compared to
14.6 for industrials, or 1853 times
as much for agriculture as for
industry.
More protection has been CIV
en- industrial products manu-
featured from farm product
raw materials than to the gen.
eral run of industrials.
If the protection given prod
ucts manufactured direct from
farm raw materials is consid-
cred as helping to improve
farm markets, the spread be-
tween farm and industrial pro-
lection has been completely
wiped out and the products of
the farm are better protected
than are the products of in
dustry so called.
Farm bureau officials have gon,
through the entire bill, taken tn,
products that are farm in eacl
schedule and the products that arr
industrial. Separation of these prod
ucts is evidently not prejudiced il
favor of agriculture because thei
definition of an industrial produc
is lone in which the professor i!
the first beneficiary of a rate O.
duty" Under this definition, the bu
reau Classics butter for example
as an industrial product and counts
the tariff benefit with it's industrial
totals and not with it's farm totals
1t does this in conformity with it,
definition that product is indus
trial if the professor, that is, tn
manufacturer, is the first benefi
ciary of the rate of duty.
A few of the other products like
wise classified as industrial ar
meats, lard, milk powders of al
kinds, cheese, poultry, frozen an
dried eggs, flour of all kinds, OF
cake and meal, breakfast food
made from wheat, corn, barley an
other farm products, prepare'
fruits and vegetables of all kinds
secured woods, leather of all kind
and hacked flax.
Notwithstanding the benefits &C
cruing from tariff rates on al
these products are credited to "ir
dustry' and subtracted iron
agriculture" the farm burea
finds that the rate of tariff duty in
crease on farm products is SIG pc
cent over the 1922 law while tn
rate of increase on the industris
products is but 14.6 per cent.
Which is to say that accordin
to the farm bureaus computation
the percentage of increase on ayr
cultural products from which hav
been subtracted the tariff benefit
accruing to butter and many .othe
products, few of which are name
above, will still be approximate
three and half times more of tn
per cent of increase on industris
products. AS to where this leave
agriculture on a basis of percent
age equality with industry, tn
statement says that under the oil
law the computed average ad va
orem rate on all industrial proc
ucts was 37.35 per cent and O
farm products 22.37 per cent, or
difference in favor of industry c
1898 per cent. Under the ne,
law, the total average for industr
is 1888 per cent and the same fo
agriculture is 1894 per cent or
difference. of $50 per cent. Th
new law, says the statement, ha
reduced the spread by 600 per Ger
which is an elimination of 40.6 pc
cent of the spread.
It should be born in mind ths
these percentages are computed O
basis of butter, processed dairy pr,
ducts, poultry and the other pr,
ducts referred to above being fl,
ured as industrial products and M
as farm products. The farm bu
eau says: MANY farmers conside
section of the state, will be hel
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