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American Agriculturist, February 16, 1924 
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THERE’S BIG MONEY IN 
The Problem of Surplus- 
Dumping Breaks the Market 
H. H. Lyon 
W E have all heard stories about 
American machinery and products 
being sold abroad for less money than 
they were sold for in this country. Once 
I doubted the stories but I have come to 
believe that some of them are true. My 
understanding is that when a surplus of 
products of any kind was found to have 
been produced, by some mistake or other¬ 
wise, that it was considered better to 
ship what surplus could not be stored and 
sold later to advantage to some other 
country and sell at whatever it would 
bring. That helped to stabilize the Ameri¬ 
can market for those products and 
brought the producer more money in 
the aggregate than could have been ob¬ 
tained had the products been dumped on 
our markets and the price broken badly. 
Dumping Breaks the Market 
It is not worth while to try to justify 
this procedure. Dumping would have 
made the home buyer something for the 
time being by enabling him to get what 
he wanted at a lower price. There comes 
in the question as to whether the buyers 
of the country would have benefited by a 
broken and irregular market and possibly 
discouraged manufacturer. It was com¬ 
paratively easy for the manufacturer to 
stop making before he had gone to an 
excess of probable demands, mueh easier 
than it is for the farmer to limit produc¬ 
tion, but even the manufacturer does 
overstock sometimes. There will be 
some difference of opinion as to the 
benefits of this method of eliminating 
surplus but it would have advocates if 
up for discussion even by buyers. 
That you say is not a farm question 
unless you are going to try to find whether 
our buyers are benefited by the practice. 
I am not going to attempt a decision. 
Nevertheless I wonder what you say 
about a concern, in this case government 
owned, that will take a surplus of wheat 
and hogs, ship them to foreign markets, 
sell them at what those markets will pay 
and so stabilize the markets for wheat 
and hogs in this country. Does that 
sound better than the former suggestion? 
It probably does if you have those com¬ 
modities to sell. How about those of us 
who have to buy those products? I will 
bet that there are buyers who prefer to 
have the wheat industry fairly remunera¬ 
tive. Possibly it is better for the country 
that it should be. It is said that the plan 
includes charging losses on foreign sales 
back to the producers just as the manu¬ 
facturers took the losses on their sales in 
foreign countries. The buyers of flour 
and wheat bran may be getting these 
products a little less than they would *if 
wheat sold for fifty cents more a bushel 
but I doubt if we get the advantage that 
goes to some others. 
Pooling Plan Sound Theory 
Take a third illustration. It costs well 
to produce milk. It is worth all that it 
costs to produce as a food product and 
I am informed that, generally speaking, 
the city buyer is willing to pay some¬ 
where near the cost of production for 
what he wants for his family in the fluid 
form. If an association of farmers, lack¬ 
ing government assistance that is pro¬ 
posed for wheat growers and being 
unable to handle a surplus as the manu¬ 
facturer of mowing machines handles his 
surplus, decides that they will sell surplus 
milk in butter form at a lower price so as 
to rid the market of that surplus and 
secure costs for a part, does not the 
analogy follow clearly? In other,words, 
is not the pooling plan sound at least 
in its theory? If the pooling plan is not 
sound then what about helping the wheat 
farmer, and what about the manufac- 
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