HUSBANDRY: Biggest Loan

The Federal Farm Board last week dipped deep into its capacious pocket and drew forth $100,000,000 for wheatmen throughout the land. It was Husbandry's biggest loan. If this sum were not enough to help cooperative associations stabilize the wheat market, the Board promised to ask Congress to advance more of its $350,000,000 credit still untouched.

This wheat loan will be doled out to coƖperatives through the National Farmers' Grain Corporation, organization of which was definitely completed last week.

The wheat market, to the Farm Board's large concern, has been on the down grade of late. In the Chicago pit last week...

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