THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1923.
PAGE FOUR
Shall We Limit Wheat
Production?
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purvey of worM cotditicr of
production nd to proort tb judp
netit of authorities ho seem to
bt quliffd to forecast tht future.
John R. Miter.;!, mfir.bor ef tre
federal ffwrv board from Minnesota.
h returned to Waahir.pton, D. C.
from a nix week tour of the fa run re :
district of the northwrtt. It is hi
conviction that the financial ps'vaticn
for the wheat farmer lif in the re- !
durtion cf wheat production to the
point where the Vnited Sute will
hocorre an importer of whe&t rather
than an exporter.
Wr. Mitchell believes that the Amer
ican wheat prow-en can not profitably
raise wheat for export in competition
with the wheat farmer in Canada,
the Arpentine, Australia and India,
where cheaper lands, labor and Mvirp
condition!" enable them to undersell
the American producer in the Liver
pool market
Export Now Rules Price.
He fipurea that it costs H.S5 a
bushel to raise wheat in the United
States and that about 800.000.000
bupheli are produced, while domestic
consumption is something more than
600.000.00 bushels annually. This
overproduction of export wheat, he
hoids, keeps down the price to the
farmer and is affecting the disorder
of rural conditions,
Mr. Mitchell be.ieves that if pro
duction of wheat could be cut to a
little less than 6K),0O0.000 bushels
annually consumption wouid exceed
the output and the law of supply
and demand would provide the Decen
nary marpin of profit to the farmer.
But he also beiieves that the farmers
must work out their own financial
salvation. "The talk about govern
ment price fixing for wheat," he said.
or any other agricultural commodity,
is, in my opinion, a waste of time. It
is impracticable of operation, un
sound in principle, and any attempt
to bring about such legislative action
would be a dismal failure. The farm
ers must approach their problem as
a business problem and solve it along
business lines; must organize to gain
all the advantages that lie in coop
erative associations; but, above all.
must seek to plan their production
with relation to the demand."
The Foreign Demand.
Let us now turn U the outstanding
conclusions of a committee of econ
amits and statisticians appointed by
!seerMry of Agriculture Wallac to
! cr.!iiri r the acncu:tural outlook.
Tr.ii cn n t!ee r.as 'ut brought in
a report forecasting that the Ameri
can farmers may evpixt a les favor-
b fore-urn demand for their p
needs of horn consumption the price
of wheat in the United States could
b stabilited at about $1 a bushel.
He thinks that it will be difficult to
bring about this reduction of wheat
''eduction, but declares that it cai
urt in ly23 than they hai ir. lt2?. be worked out, with the aid of CO-
Yet te output of farm products, th.
committee sy, will be greater th-.n
uti-t year. Against that unfavorable!
aspect, it say., the home demand, de- .
peruier.'.. upon present prosperous con- !
dnions in business, will be more ac- j
tive than tas-t fall.
As to wheat, the committee says in
it report to Secretary Wa.iace:
'The American exports of wheat
durirp the last two years were un
usually large owing to the low ex
ports from eastern Europe and con
tinued low production in some coun
tries in Europe. Thee exporta should
not be taken as normal, nor be ex
pected to continue permanently. The
European countries are making ef
forts to put their grain production
on a prewar basis and as they be
come able to accomplish this it is to
be expected that our exports will de
cline and that our production should
be readjusted to meet these changing
conditions."
Since the foregoing report was
made the United States department
of agriculture has advices from the
International Institute of Agricul
ture at Rome reporting generally good
crop conditions in Europe.
Authorities also note a tendency
toward decreased consumption of
wheat in the United States. Secre
tary Hoover's department of com
merce reports that the output of
wheat flour, representing 74 per cent
of the total value of all products
manufactured by the milling indus
try in 1921, decreased 16 per cent in
quantity between 1919 and 1921.
For the seven-year period, 1914 to
1921. the quantity of wheat flour de
creased 5 per cent. We must remem
ber that in all that period there was a
steadv increase of population, am
ounting approximately to 10,000.000 in
the seven-year period from 1914 to
1921, the period when the quantity
of wheat flour decreased 5 per cent.
Apparently the American people
who were urged to consume less
wheat during the war are continuing
that diminished consumption and
have got into the habit of supplying
their tables with other food products.
The increased consumption of break
fast cereals accounts in part for this
apparent falling off in the eating of
wheat breads, but even when allow
ance is made for that it seems prob
able that, person for person, we are
eating less bread now than we were
before the World war.
Mr. Mitchell of the federal reserve
board, who was quoted at the begin
ning of this article, believes that if
wheat production can be cut to the
operative marketing associations and
farm organisations spreading the doc
trine of diverained farming to re
place the surplus wheat acreage with
other crops.
This is a problem that may well
engage the close attention of our
wheat growers. All factors consid
ered, we can not see how our wheat
growers can reasonably hope for per
manently better prices so long as we
have a large exportable surplus and
they are put to competition with the
exportable surplus of lanada. Argen
tina, Australia and India. There is j
the further fact to be considered that 1
wheat production, which was sharply
cut down tn Russia, Germany, France !
and the Balkan countries, will in
crease from thia time forward. The
increase will be slow, but it will be !
an increase.
To sura it all up, we fear that the
farmer who is staking everything
upon wheat growing is taking a dan
gerous gamble against world produc
tion and world markets.
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