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Peanuts in the Parks. Corn Senators, milk Senators, wheat Senators, cotton Senators, hog Senators, rice Senators and peanut Senators had formed a series of log-rolling alliances. They pushed through an increase in corn acreage, a two-price system for wheat, a dual parity plan covering cotton, wheat, corn and peanuts, a two-price plan for rice, mandatory support prices for feed grains and higher supports for dairy products. Then, in a crowning touch of irresponsibility, they voted to "set aside," i.e., ignore, much of the stored surplus commodities. Asked Vermont's exasperated Aiken: "Why not a formula which...
...Columba and the River details how a quirk of hydrodynamics blows a sand hog unharmed from a collapsing tunnel to the surface of a river. With leaden humor, Dreiser jeers at the man's belief that the saints had preserved...
...meeting of the National Swine Industry Committee in Chicago, he read a lecture to the processors and distributors of meat products. Said he: "I have been extremely concerned in recent months that prices to farmers were going down while marketing margins were going up. In other words, low hog prices were not fully reflected in pork values to the consumer ... I am fully aware that total costs of processing and merchandising pork have gone up, as they have in other farm commodities. I believe firmly you're entitled to a fair return. But when one segment of the meat...
...Going to Pot." The soil-bank plan, Benson warned his fellow Republicans, is "no nostrum." He called it a constructive "move in the direction we must go with a many-sided program." Indications of the pressure on Benson were evident enough last week, when hog prices dropped to the lowest point in 14 years, and U.S. farm economists met in Washington for an annual "outlook" conference that expressed much long-range confidence but brought little news of immediate cheer. For 1956, they foresaw a continued cost-price squeeze, though not so serious a one as the 10% farm decline...
...RATE PORK SALES to help farmers dispose of the huge hog surplus are catching on in the Midwest. Aided by bankers and local merchants, farmers near Vinton Iowa put 20,000 Ibs. of pork on sale to consumers at prices 8? to 10? below wholesale levels, were sold out in minutes. Dozens of other towns in the hog belt are planning similar sales...