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Show Now They Know How The Farmer Feels Consumers who recently had the coupons in their food ration books summarily invalidated, can appreciate the problem that faces the farmer under 57 varieties of regulations and restrictions. Ordinarily the farmer plans production schedules years in advance. ad-vance. Investments in crops are made on the basis of probable prices pri-ces at harvest time. Long experience experi-ence with the laws of supply and demand teach the farmer what he must grow if he is to stav out of bankruptcy. At least, that is the way the farmer operated before the age of regulation and subsidies subsi-dies descended upon him. Now, like the consumer, he knows not what to expect next. A government' govern-ment' directive may cut his acreage, acre-age, reduce prices when his crop is ready to harvest, or put him out of business. It is not a pleasant pleas-ant way to live. |