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of this policy would mean the encouragement of fac- 

 tories for the manufacture of agricultural products 

 much nearer the points of consumption than pre-war 

 conditions of competition seem to justify. 



4. Grades. Establishment of national grades and standards 

 for farm products. 



5. Government control. Control distributing agencies, les- 

 sen waste, cheapen distributing costs and provide adequate 

 facilities for handling food products either by government 

 ownership of the mechanism of distribution or by govern- 

 ment control through the licensing of middlemen and reg- 

 ulation of middlemen's prices, charges and methods or by 

 government price fixing. 



6. More stringent regulation to prevent adulteration, mis- 

 branding, etc. 



Additional projects advocated by a minority. 



7. Storage and warehouse facilities constructed, operated or 

 controlled by government to restore the balance of under- 

 or over-production of food or prevent gluts and shortages 

 and to stabilize prices. 



8. Regulation of exports of raw agricultural products. 



9. Encouragement of farmers' markets and means of direct 

 marketing to utilize products for consumption as near the 

 source of supply as possible and provide the consumer with 

 fresh food materials. 



IV. Rural Education. 



Principle, to make available to farmers' sons and daughters as 

 satisfactory educational advantages as are offered to any children 

 in the country. 



1. Federal aid to rural schools, chiefly because it is impossible 

 to provide adequate educational facilities to rural children 

 by local taxation ; 



2. The creation of adequate rural educational facilities of 

 both primary and secondary grade. Much emphasis is 

 laid on the necessity of providing secondary school educa- 

 tion for rural children; 



