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...that time, poverty had spread its chill hand across the U.S. farmlands. Corn had dropped to 19? a bushel, hogs to 2½? a lb. and cotton to a demoralizing 5? and 6? a lb.; dairy farmers were forced to sell their milk for 2? and 3? a quart. Foreclosures had deprived thousands of farmers of their farms; in Iowa alone, one out of seven farmers lost his land between 1926 and 1931. Godfearing, usually law-abiding men banded together and picketed highways, overturning milk into creeks. That was one way to get rid of surpluses...
...many farmers would ask: "Can I really get away with that?" In its spring issue last week, the Quarterly assured U.S. farmers that the ad had suggested a perfectly legal way for farmers to sell their corn and have it too-and make as much as 83¢ a bushel into the bargain...
...Quarterly cited the case of a Jefferson County (Ind.) farmer who normally uses all of his corn for feed. He had such a bumper crop in 1948 that he cribbed his 904-bushel surplus, put it under Government seal in 1949 and got a $1,319 loan at the $1.47-a-bushel support price less charges. Then a neighbor told him he was a fool: he could put his entire crop under loan at the support price, then buy all the corn he needed for feed at 65½ a bushel in the cash market. In short, by selling...
Despite the enormous surpluses on hand and the prospect of more acoming, corn and wheat futures edged up last week to new seasonal highs in the Chicago markets. And at Kansas City, No. 2 hard wheat stood at $2.32 a bushel, 12? above the support level. In short, the Commodity Credit Corp. has taken so much wheat off the markets by loans and purchases that it has, in effect, created an artificial shortage-and higher prices...
...know of no Senator who has more generously used the Congressional Record and other governmental facilities to promote his publicity. If he has ever hidden his light under a bushel, I am not aware of it. I have not observed that he is of the shrinking-violet type...