The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 6, 1919, Page 10

S D DVSH Sy PRy SENEE Tl ooy S8 S e S X o ADVERTISEMENTS ALL THESE FREE . Secrot I.noket md Neck Chain and N tation W NEW WAY 'I'O WARM How F arm Cost Studles Were Held Up' _ Recent Excuse Given by Secretary of Agriculture Rlddled' by Man in Charge of Work HEN the senate commit- tee on agriculture asked the department_ of agri- culture for statistics on ous crops recently, Secre- tary Houston declared that no re- liable ‘material had been gathered. farm costs for the vari-. and the expert in charge, W. J. Spill- =~ man, was dismissed. { As brought out previously in\ the Leader, accurate cost studies would\be a.most powerful argument for reform in favor of the farmers, and this fact probably explains the reluctance of the P { l B e e SRR o department of agriculture to “find” them. * The following excerpts from a letter by Mr. Spillman to the senate committee on agriculture throws a good deal of light on the situation: “The latter part of August I was asked to appear before your commit- tee and give such information as I pos- sessed relating to the cost of wheat and beef, which I did. “On November 7 the secretary of agriculture addressed a letter to. the president of the senate, in answer to ' senate resolution No. 810, in which he . stated that the investigations on cost: of ‘production conducted by the office of farm management, of which I was = ' chief until August 31 of this year, did S ot give results that were trustworthy, - and at the same time criticized 'the methods used in these investigations. In the interests of the farmers of this country I beg leave to present to your. committee the facts about the methods used so that-you may be in position-to . judge .whether the results presented by me are dependable. HOW SECRETARY HANDLED MATTER “Plans were made to carry out a very complete study on the- followmg crops: Corn, wheat, oats, barley, rice, beans, sugar beets, grain sorghums, i potatoes, cofton, apples and hay; and ; for livestock, on beef cattle, sheep and hogs. Co-operation was solicited from the bureau of animal industry in the livestock studies and from various of- fices in the bureau of plant industry in the crop studies, since much previ- ous work had been conducted along - these lines with these bureaus. Plans were finally completed for sending ‘a number of men to the field to gather data, but when letters of authorization were requested the secretary of agri- culture refused to grant them. , - . “I sent a memorandum to the secre- - % tary reminding him that these data ‘c had been called for by the federal - trade. commission, but received no re- ply. This, if my memory serves me right, was in the month of October. “Nothing more: was done about furnishing the reports to the federal trade commission till the middle of January, 1918, when a telegram was received from the president -of the American National Livestock associa-" tion, thenin session at Salt City, asking the secretary as to the status of the work on cost of producing beef. This reopened the subject, and shortly thereafter authority was granted to: . resume the mvestlgatmns in which the : federal trade commission was. inter- ested. Because of weather conditions: it was not practicable to undertake field studies until the spring of 1918. “Jt -is" easily comprehensible that economists and ‘statisticians who have made no special study of farm practice - ‘might not understandthe reliability of ; results presented in a way new to A them. This would especially be-the case with men who. ‘'were anxious to prevent the farmers from getting, any “benefit: from the results in question. The chief complaint of the farmers about the work of certain bureaus of the department has been that the men who did' their -investigational work do not know farm practice and farm con- ditions, and I took particular pains to see that no such charge could be brought ‘against the men who did this- piece of work. 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