Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agriculture," he said, "is the basic industry of the State. It is not only fundamental to all other industries, but it is a big and important industry in itself." He called attention to the fact that New York, though twentieth among the states in farming area, stands eight in total farm production. In potatoes, hay and sweet corn it leads; in dairy products, apples, grapes and total value of vegetables it stands second...
...disadvantage of being a Congressman is that you have to talk about one topic for months, years. On trains back to Washington last week, Congressmen were still talking, after a decade of it, about farm relief. Politically if not economically, something-must-be-done...
Economics. Insoluble though it seems, the economic aspect of the farm problem is simple. The only large variable involved is weather. If weather is good, so are crops. Too-big crops make too-small prices. If weather is bad, prices are good but many a farmer will have no crop to sell. Intelligent study of sound weather data will help stabilize his decision as to when to plant but the farmer still needs a gambler's instinct at planting time. And thereafter his fortune is in the lap of winds, rains, frosts...
...against him, he believes it. Were the politicians honest, they would say that the tariff favors manufacturers, which is very different. But instead of mere jealousy, the farmer has been made to feel that he suffers downright injury from the manufacturers' tariff. Similarly, ever since the Government fixed farm prices as a War measure, the farmer has been told, and he believes, there is no honest reason why the Government should not try to stabilize farm prices permanently. The Federal Reserve Board stabilizes the money market. Why should a Federal board not stabilize the food market? So asks...
...Harvard men who were winners of the $100 prizes were: Richard Connell '15 of Green Farm, Connecticut, W. B. Pressey of Hanover, New Hampshire, S. C. Van Sickle of Springfield, Massachusetts, and T. S. Anderson of Providence, Rhode Island. The latter three took their degrees in the Graduate School of Education in 1917, 1921, and 1924 electively...