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FUTURE WORK 



There will always be plenty of work for the Farm Bureaus to do. 

 Constantly shifting production and trade problems the world over are 

 sure to necessitate readjustments in rotations, in live-stock breeding 

 and feeding, and in marketing operations from time to time ; and the 

 Farm Bureau is the logical means of putting the necessary changes 

 promptly into effect. A feature just now is a sensible reduction in 

 corn production by replacing part of the acreage with soil-improving 

 legume crops. Only concerted local agitation and persuasion will get 

 us anywhere with this proposition. If we had been sufficiently or- 

 ganized to cut down the corn acreage a year ago when the need was 

 plainly apparent and was strongly urged, we could have averted a 

 corn-belt catastrophe. We must depend upon the Farm Bureaus to 

 guide production along necessary and profitable channels, without the 

 disastrous overproduction and underproduction at times which have 

 featured our agricultural history. When our lands have been farmed 

 longer there will also be greater attention demanded by the fertility 

 question. New marketing problems are sure to arise, and always 

 there will be the demand for developing and introducing those sys- 

 tems of farm management which best conform to changing economic 

 conditions. 



