434 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



wishes to arrive at the facts as they are, "Come! Let us reason to- 

 gether." 



In the whirl of affairs clear thinking is difficvilt ; formulation of 

 statements well-nigh impossible. 



Today, however, the Farm Bureau Federations of Ohio, Indiana, 

 Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, potent factors for increasing production 

 in the heart of the meat, milk and grain-producing sections of the 

 United States, endorse through their authorized officers the state- 

 ments following: 



Under war pressure when lighting a foreign foe farm production 

 was not shortened ; it was increased tremendously. Upon the fair or 

 unfair attitude and action of capitalistic monopolies and organized 

 labor, upon the sanity of their next immediate pronouncements affect- 

 ing National and International affairs, depends the decision of the 

 American farmer in planning his next year's program of work. Now 

 is the seeding season for wheat. Now is the time the farmer selects 

 the gilts and brood sows that will give birth to the 1920 pig crop. 

 Now is the time when the dairyman determines the number of cows 

 he wants to milk twice daily for the next year. Now is the time 

 the cattle feeder determines whether he will sell his corn as beef or 

 as corn. Now is the time silos must be filled if feeding operations 

 are to be engaged in. Now is the time the farm woman determines 

 the size of next year's flock of poultry. Now is the time when the 

 farmer plans the next year's farm acreage. In short, now is the 

 season when the efficient farmer plans his whole 1920 program. 

 Right now, the American farmer holds in his hands the power to 

 determine quite definitely the size of next year's crop of wheat, milk, 

 cheese, butter, poultry, eggs, in short, all food stuffs, and with that, 

 to determine whether or not the world's table will be abundantly 

 supplied next year. The American farmer individually and in his or- 

 ganizations recognizes his responsibility in this matter, provided. 

 however, that every other good American citizen or foreigner within 

 our borders, will let the scales drop from his own eyes and witness 

 that he also has an individual and an organized responsibility that 

 cannot be shifted. The American farmer does not sympathize with 

 artificial or political quackery for befogging the real issues, but 

 impotent in giving even passing relief. The American farmer is will- 

 ing to squarely meet the issue. If prices cut to the bone all along 

 the line, farm products, wages, manufactured goods, rent, wholesalers 

 and retailers profits, will bring the desired results, which he rather 

 doubts, he will go as far along that road as any, but he will not go 



