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Last year 10,450 producer cooperatives (mostly growers and dairymen) marketed $2.5 billion worth of products for their farmer members. Their city cousins retailed only $750 million of goods. To help the urban groups, as well as to provide farm co-ops with easier access to funds, the convention put finishing touches on their national finance association, which will raise capital by selling cooperative securities to financially strong regional cooperative groups...
...Shipping Administration allocated ships to pick up 150,000 tons of Argentine corn for August delivery to U.S. dairymen on the eastern seaboard. Additional monthly corn imports will continue until November. By then the War Food...
...broken in transit and who is supposed to have the best cattle-buyer's eye in history. This is hotly disputed by admirers of Gustavus Franklin Swift, who is also prominently hung. There are gentler people like Wisconsin University's goateed Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, to whom dairymen are forever grateful. He refused patents or profit on his butterfat-measuring Babcock Test. There is Herbert Hoover; he was hung for his veto of legislation which would have hurt livestock...
They belong by family and tradition in the rolling Delaware Valley country, and as poultrymen, dairymen, sheepmen and general farmers they are pursuing the only profession they know...
...subsidy argument: By handing out $900 million in food subsidies to farmers and dairymen (to be paid for by future taxation), the Government claims it can hold retail prices of most important foodstuffs at their present ceilings. The question: Do the means justify the end? To those who hold that a tight lid on prices is an absolute necessity, there was ample proof that the means are justified, buttressed by the fact that no sound alternative for subsidies has yet been offered...