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corresponding 10 cents per pound export 

 bounty will relieve this very, very sad con- 

 dition. 



Mr. Aswell in saying for the last 50 years 

 dates his beginning when the tariff for war 

 revenue was put on. Think of the suffer- 

 ing imposed on a branch of our American 

 citizens ! The wheat raiser has been placed 

 in just such a predicament only he has had 

 the virgin fertility of rich new land to ex- 

 haust, but this ought to stop, and the only 

 way our nation can place the American 

 wheat raiser in a position capable to im- 

 prove our nation's social fabric is to place 

 an import duty of $30 per ton on wheat and 

 also an export bounty of $30 per ton, and 

 in order to stay in the world's trade it will 

 be necessary to place a ship bounty of $10 

 annually per ton register on every foreign- 

 going American merchantman. 



Professor R. V. Gunn of the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College spoke during Farmers' 

 Week on the cost of producing a bushel of 

 wheat on 40 Sherman county farms. He said 

 the cost ranged from $1 to $2.80 a bushel. 

 I may say that most agricultural crops have 

 been raised at a loss for the last 50 years. 

 And when Senator Hatch instituted Agri- 

 cultural Experimental Farms he saw the ef- 

 fect and not the cause. Had our statesmen 

 placed enough protection on agriculture the 

 Agricultural Colleges would have come au- 

 tomatically and they would have functioned 



