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If this institution loaned only one-eighth, then the farmers 

 borrow $1,050,000,000 annually. But if 60 per cent of this 

 goes to pay off previous mortgages, they still went in the 

 hole $420,000,000 on their year's product. 



Farmers should unionize to raise their wages through the 

 minimum price system until they can decrease their mort- 

 gages annually instead of increasing them. 



Government for Increased Yield, not Price. 



All the effort the government, state or county has made 

 to aid the wheat grower has for its single object an increased 

 yield. Not a plan or suggestion, much less aid, is offered or 

 provided to increase the price. That is because the govern- 

 ment is controlled by the organized classes who desire ever 

 declining prices for farm products. 



When prices decline to where products are not worth 

 hauling to market after being raised, the agricultural colleges, 

 farm experiment stations and county farm agents " point 

 with pride" to the grand results they have achieved and ask 

 for more state and national appropriations to continue them 

 in the good work of reducing prices through overproduction. 



It is a great benefit to the captains of industry to have 

 their laborers fed free by the farmers so they will not have 

 that excuse to ask for higher wages. But the wheat grower 

 has learned by bitter experience that it is more to his interest 

 to raise ten bushels per acre for one dollar a bushel than 

 twenty bushels for fifty cents a bushel, and no one can con- 

 vince him it isn't. Until they come with a plan that will 

 insure as much per bushel for a big yield as a poor yield 

 they need not come to the wheat grower at all. But I am 

 a fellow wheat grower, and come to them with a plan that 

 will do that very thing, and a plan no government agency 

 will ever bring them. I ask them to examine it and try it 

 out if it appeals to their best judgment. 



