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Excerpt from Marketing and Farm Credits: A Collection of Papers and Documents Read at the Fourth Annual Sessions of the National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits in Chicago, at the Hotel Sherman, December 4-9, 1916 The 1915 volume of the National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits sounded a new note in the literature of agricultural economics. The 1916 volume, now presented to the public, marks the transition in economic thought from the theoretic to the practical. Former speakers of the Conference dwelt largely upon what ought to be done. But in 1916 the General Committee made an effort to secure speakers who could tell how to do those things that may be necessary to the national welfare insofar as they might relate to the solution of the American land question and to the future organization of agricultural cooperation. This volume, we believe, presents an advance in agricultural conceptions, and voices sane constructive thoughts with regard to the working out of coordinated national and state policies for solution of land settlement, landlord and tenant, farm credit, personal credit and kindred problems, and for the encouragement of the business side of farming by agricultural cooperation. The attendance at the 1916 Conference exceeded all former records, about 2,000 persons being present, and over 2,000,000 farmers represented. Each general and sectional meeting was rich in free discussion and the quantity of it was so great as to make it impossible for the Committee to incur the expense of publishing everything that was said. The Committee also feels some gratification in being able to point to the fact that the Congress of the United States has recently appropriated $250,000 for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the livestock industry as was urged by the speakers at this Conference and by the resolutions adopted. A long line of agricultural progress may be traced as a result of the movements and ideas which the delegates to the Conference have pioneered, or supported. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Marketing and Farm Credits: Proceedings of the First National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits, in Chicago, April 8, 9 and 10, 1913 In calling the First National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits the publishers of the farm journals that sponsored and financed the undertaking had no pet scheme to foist upon the public; neither was it their purpose to inaugurate a fight upon any special interests connected with present methods of marketing farm products or financing farm business. Recognizing certain defects, and believing that from the common counsel some light might be thrown upon the ways, they undertook the responsibility of initiating this national movement. Believing that in a multitude of wisdom truth may be born, they brought the people together to diagnose evils and to propose remedies. From the very beginning the promoters of this conference took every precaution to keep it apart from any touch of sensationalism and free from evidences of hasty action. The manner in which the delegates went about the work was gratifying beyond the promoters' dreams. The call received a generous response; the delegates who attended were pioneers blazing the first national trail to redirect economic forces for the readjustment of the farming population to harmonious relations with the industrial world. At all times the conference was within the control of delegates who represented the business interest of farmers, and as such the deliberation of the delegates cannot but be recognized as of supreme importance. For this reason, also, the sentiment of the gathering must have great influence with those in the legislative halls who represent the whole body of the people. When the gavel fell on the first session the foster-relation of the farm journals who promoted this conference ceased and they became as others - joint participants in a mighty work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.