The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-04
new FARM AID
PLAN STUDIED
=. IN MIDWEST
Kansas Master Grangeman
Has Substitute To Of
.~ fer For Triple A

LIBERALS, Kas., Jan. 4. CUP
&C. C.. Cogsweil, master of the
Kansas State Grange, has form
ulated o farm, program which Is
being studied widely by promin-
ent farm leaders of the Middle
West.
CogswelPs farm program was
planned, he said, because he crl-
ticised the Agricultural Adjust
ment Act, and, $50 many people
who do criticise the AAA have
nothing to offer in its place"
His seven-point program and
accompanying comment follow:
/. Prohibit the production OF
any basic commodity by pro-
Queer who is already receiving
government checks for reduction
of one basic commodity. This
would prevent "chiseiing' by the
farmers of any section. The
southern cotton planter nald to
decrease his output could not
plant corn or potatoes on his idle
acres and the wheat producer
could not plant corn.
2. Make all adjustments Of
production on a quantity basis
over a series Of years rather than
acreage, thus permitting the farm
err to make amends if the weather
causes a poor crop. Thus, a bad
crop one year would permit him
to increase production next year
and ne would not have to depend
entirely on reduction checks.
URGES QUALITY
PRODUCTION
3. Make all benefit payments
on the basis of what is produced
rather than what is not and d.
vide them into two classes to en-
courage quality production ana
pay benefits only to that portion
which is consumed in America.
The AAA forced the formers to
produce a better quality grain
and get more bushels per acre be-
cause the reduction was on an
acreage and not q buShel basis.
Thus. the quality of the product
would be raised in this manner.
4. Provide for surplus produc-
ton for these who desire to pro-
duce for development OF new
uses, for foreign markets or, Tor
storage. Such surplus not to
compete in any way with the pro
tected portion and to be sealed
and held where produced OF turn
ed over 70 an organization Great
ed for that purpose and control
led by it. This would make the
processing tax or whatever meth
cd Of obtaining q protected TAR
Tiff for the home-consumed prod
ucts function in the same manner
that the tariff now protects IN
dustry. 1t would increase the OPP
portunity for employment OF
farm labor and production by al
lowing those who wish to COM
nete with the world on their eX-
cess production within reasonable
limits. This would make the
farmers protection equal to that
of other industries.
EARLY ADJUSTMENT
FAVORED 81
:, Provide for adjustments OF
production and benefits in ad-
vance of planting time of the
eron to which they apply. Tins
would eliminate the necessity OF
nreparation in seeding of crops
which might later prove to be out
side compliance rules.
6. Create a crop insurance Tea
ture to insure the thrifty farmer
sufficient revenue to recompense
him for is labor and seed and
nrevent his elimination when ms
crop famed through no fault OF
his. This could be done by tax,
inc, q certain percentage OF all
the surplus produced in any year
over that entitled to receive 0ene-
fits. The percentage over the
allotted acreage or productIon
should not be more than sutti-
cicnt TO recompense the farmer
for his seed and labor in planting,
The percentage surplus coula Dc
turned into revenue and placed
in a bank for withdrawal II the
crop fails. A farm organization
could act as agent.
2. Build the entire program
around and for the benefit of the
family sized farm to eliminate
advantages now given large
operators and landholders.
PROGRAM NOT
IRON-BOUND
In presenting his program
CooSweU said, that certain condl-
tions and developments mgnt
necessitate certain additional al
terations later.
81 didn't propose it as an infai-
hble form program" he said,
1tbut I do believe that it will re-
move certain inconsistencies In the
AAA." A
Cogswell declared the AAA
had served admirably as IAN en-
Urgency program" but that araS-
tic changes are necessary II IL Is
to be long time practical and eco
nomically sound program.
'sThe farmers themselves must
learn to take over and control the
machinery of reduction and adj
instment. There is no justltlca-
fion for continuance of a pro-
Gram which will require increasII
mo importation of agricultural
products. The injustice of the
hog slaughter and destruction OF
gain were not so much the fault
of the AAA itself as the admin
istration."
Cogswell also criticised the con-
+inuance of farm loans to farm
ars charging the farmers are rap
idlv becoming subsidized by the
government.
al oans are vital and necessary
in time of emergency but the
present is such that farms are pc