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...Legge seem worried as to what was to be done with all the Government's wheat. He laughed when asked once more about a big rumored sale to Italy, called it "unfortunately untrue." He stressed the Board's efforts to get farmers to feed wheat to their livestock, saying: "Why, one active energetic pig will eat as much wheat as a family of five persons. First give the pig a chance and there will be no surplus wheat in this country...
Coffee v. Livestock = Civil War. Coffee is the President of Brazil (Dr. Washington Luis) and also the President-elect (Dr. Julio Prestes), both from the great Coffee State of Sao Paulo which is supposed to have the best army...
...Livestock is the defeated presidential candidate (Senhor Getulio Vargas), President of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, popular in other livestock states of Minas Geraes and Parahyba. It was naturally these three states that rallied in revolution last week around defeated Candidate Vargas. He has charged for months that agents of the "Coffee Oligarchs" assassinated the vice-presidential candidate who was his running mate. He says that he would now be President-elect instead of Dr. Prestes had not the "Coffee Government" of President Washington Luis perpetrated gross ballot-box frauds...
Relief. A total of 703 counties in 19 States have been certified by the Department of Agriculture as beneficiaries of freight rate reductions on livestock feed. The American Railway Association reported that 3,733 carloads of hay and mill feed had been shipped into the stricken counties at the emergency rate. In a few States highway construction was accelerated but in others no money was available for such extra work In Iowa and Nebraska crop conditions were comparatively good and no farm credits were required...
President Hoover last week took up the kind of national problem with which he knows best how to deal. A drought,* worst since the Civil war, was upon the east and midwest (see p. 15). Husbandmen across a checkerboard of devastation faced immense crop and livestock losses. President Hoover could not bring rain, but he could and did organize relief agencies