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...gone. But there is one last U. S. frontier: Alaska. A few hundred discouraged miners who have turned to farming produce only a small portion of Alaska's food. The rest, $6,000,000 worth per year, is imported. Meantime, U. S. farmers plow under their crops, kill livestock to prevent a surplus. Last January, FERA officials put these facts together, produced their most ambitious rural rehabilitation scheme to date...
Arriving at Matanuska Valley, 125 mi. inland from Seward, each transplanted family will get a 40-acre tract, a log cabin, livestock and farm equipment. They will have 30 years to pay the Government $3,000, with 3% interest, the first payment due in four years. The cabins will have built-in furniture, running water. A physician, dentist and Red Cross nurse will be in attendance. Warmed by 20 hr. per day of summer sunlight and wet by heavy rains, Matanuska loam yields whopping crops. The Japanese Current keeps winter temperatures well above those of northern Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin...
After three days the Treasury reported 2,389 arrests. Confiscated had been several million dollars worth of jewels, narcotics, liquor, stills, livestock, automobiles, boats, lottery tickets and, in Montana, a stump-puller on which duty had not been paid. Alcohol Tax agents, most of whom have worked without pay since Dec. because of a patronage-greedy deficiency bill amendment wangled by Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, had seized 900 stills, 119 automobiles and 40,204 gal. of bootleg liquor, made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold...
...whites and blacks to the land in the past four years has brought the South's farm population up to 54% of the nation's total farm population. Yet last year the South received but 33% of the national income from field crops and livestock. Of this, all but a small fraction came from cotton, the "Poverty Crop...
...Last week the Department of Agriculture reported that total value of U. S. farm livestock at the year end was $3,100,000,000 as against $2,876,000,000 the year before. Yet total number of cattle dropped 7,600,000 during the year to 60,000,000; swine dropped 20,000,000 to 37,000,000; sheep and lambs dropped...