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a bushel at the farmers' home market for No. 1 wheat, and 

 the usual discount for lower grades. That price will hold 

 good on this crop. We will let you know later what next 

 year's wheat price will be when we ascertain what its cost 

 will be." 



Only Fair Wages and Expenses Needed as Stimulant. 



"WASHINGTON, March 4. Three-quarters of a million dollars to be 

 distributed by the Department of Agriculture in prizes to stimulate 

 staple food production is provided in an amendment to the agricultural 

 appropriation bill adopted today by the Senate. During the debate 

 Senator Gore, chairman of the Agricultural Committee ; Senator Reed> 

 of Missouri, Democrat, and Senator Wadsworth, Republican, attacked 

 the Food Administration, declaring it had not given proper consideration 

 to the farmers." 



Cut it out! All the stimulant to raising wheat needed and 

 demanded is skilled labor wages and overhead expenses. All 

 such crop prizes are snares to get the farmers to make fools 

 of themselves as cheap producers. 



By unionizing each grower is to get the prize of good wages 

 and interest every year on his crop. 



Methodist Church Tackles the Farm Problem. 



"NEW YORK, Oct. 24. To help make farming profitable and rural 

 life endurable for the farmer, his wife, his sons and daughters, the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church has undertaken to spend $5,500,000 in 

 training rural ministers to teach scientific farming and develop social 

 activity in country districts. The purpose as announced by the Board 

 of Home Missions and Church Extension is to keep the farmers on the 

 farms and thus help to win the war. Dissatisfaction with country life, 

 it is declared, has caused a decrease of rural population in Ohio, Indiana, 

 Missouri, Vermont, and New Hampshire. The boys and girls will not 

 stay on the farm when high wages are to be earned nearer the moving 

 picture theatres. To combat this, the Methodist Church is planning 

 to send many of its best men to the country churches, of which it has 

 upward of 12,000. Rural pastors are to have special training in agri- 

 culture so as to help farmers with advice. Demonstration farms are to 

 be established where agricultural colleges do no* meet the needs. Asso- 



