Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-12
DAIRYMEN MEET
DISCUSS PLAN
Three States are Represented at Meet
Ing In st. Paul Friday
and Saturday.

Dairymen to the number of about
500 from all parts of Minnesota and
North and South Dakota met with Of
ficials of the Agricultural Adjustment
at University Farm
in st. Paul on Friday and Saturday
April and Z. to discuss measures
for the dairy industry.
The Administrations proposed dai-
ry reduction program was the CHIEF
topic of discussion, but a plan pro-
posed by John Brandt, president and
general manager of the Land O'Lakei
Creameries, Inc, and program advO-
Gated by the National Milk Producers
Federation also were aired.
Speakers for the administration
the AAA dairy section and o. M. Reed
and A. B. Nystrom of the Bureau OF
Dairy Industry. Dean w. G. Coffey OF
the University of Minnesota Depart
ment of Agriculture presided.
Mr.. Lauterbach said that the pro-
posed dairy reduction plan was the
best the administration had been able
to devise under the authority of the
Adjustment Act. Before
other plans may be adopted, he said
it will be necessary either to make
them conform to this Act or get Con-
gress to pass new legislation. He
voiced the opinion that there Is still
opportunity during the present session
of Congress to amend the Agricultural
Adjustment Act or pass new dairy re-
lief legislation.
Present United Front.
1.-The most urgent need" he said, lis
for sdairymen to concentrate on one
plan and, if additional legislation is
necessary, present a united front to
get it enacted"
Mr.. Reed pointed out that milk pro-
duction reached record heights in the
summer and fall of 1888 and with the
drop in consumer purchasing power
prices fell disastrously. Because OF
high grain prices, production has fall
len so much in recent months that
now, by checking volume about at
present levels, and avoiding the flusl,
production of which the industry Is
capable, a balance may be restored
This, he said, would involve reducing
production at least 10 per cent below
the high levels of 1882 and 1888, but
would not lower materially the vol
ume of recent months.
1T is easy to conceive a situation
in which all of the milk produced
might move into cOnsumptive chan
nelS," he said, but at prices so low
that the dairyman could not continue
in business"
Mr.. Nystrom urged change from
heavy grain feeding to the use of good
pasturage and high quality roughage
as means of reducing dairy prOduc-
ton costs and curtailing production
He also advocated intelligent cullinl
of low producing and diseased cows
from the herds, the vealing of calves
from all except the best dams, a delay
in the time of breeding heifers, and
the use of more dairy products on the
farm as means of curtailing CONNER
cial dairy output.
Brandt's Plan.
Mr.. Brandt advocated setting a
minimum price on all agricultural
staples and removing surplus products
from the domestic market by means
of a government pool, to be financed
at the outset by the issuance of two
billion dollars in paper money, which
would be replenished, however, by the
proceeds of an equalization fee levied
on the value of the products benefited
From this pool, products would be
drawn to feed the needy, manufacture
into industrial products, and export
to foreign markets. The retirement
from production of marginal and SUBJ
marginal lands and, if necessary, of
more productive lands with proceeds
of the equalization fee would also play
an important part in this program, ne
said.
Mr.. Reeds criticism of this plan
was directed chiefly at its export pro-
vision, the provision to remove mar
ginal and submarginal lands from cul-
tivation, and the fact that it does not
conform to existing legislation.
'Plans for surplus removal, eQuali-
cation fees, and forced exports" he
said, would require new legislation
The Agricultural Adjustment Admin
stration is primarily interested in
working out some proposals which
could be put into effect promptly,
without further congressional action
w. S. Moscrip, president of the Twin
City Milk Producers Association, re-
viewed the relief program advocated
by the National Milk Producers Fede-
ration, which includes the preserva-
ton of the American market fol