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tivates. We must have a system of farm credits 

 which will place a dollar at every point in our 

 production system where it will return more 

 than a dollar in product. We must enable the 

 young farmer to get the land and the equipment 

 necessary to becoming a successful producer, 

 and this involves the entire problem of land- 

 mortgage-credit, financing a tenant, financing 

 the production and movement of crops and live 

 stock and its final distribution in the market. 



Education takes second place in the rank 

 alongside of financing. By education I mean not 

 merely the training of farmers but the broader 

 education involved in the encouragement of 

 research and experiment which will develop 

 new methods, improve existing crops and live 

 stock, develop our knowledge of production and 

 distribution, the handling of the products, stand- 

 ards of quality, the control of pests and diseases, 

 and all of the many details that follow. Every 

 dollar must be invested in scientific work that 

 will bring a return of more than a dollar. 



Transportation is the next fundamental, since 

 transportation is vital to agriculture owing to 

 the central fact that the consumer cannot be 

 located near the point of production. This in- 

 volves the development of our railways, high- 



