Show buying power of wheat articles farmers buy cost in terms of wheat each sack holds 3 bushels 1914 uz au mal L F 49 IT 1925 22 0 first a months IVING wheat the th same buying Is jt power that it had in the period before the world war Is the goal of the agricultural Acri cultural adjustment adinie this chart aboin sho wo how b ha the th problem Is if in 1914 I 1 15 a c ke of 1 wheat would luy buy a pair ol of a shoes h aea a barred of flour a chair an aad 4 a plow in 1926 1925 it took toch 9 sacks aki ot of wheat to buy the same set et of articles in 1930 it took 19 sacks ot of wheat and early in 1933 it took 22 sacks backs ot of wheat the cause causa of the low buying baying rower la Is too great a supply to remedy the situation the agricultural adjust ment men l administration hu begun a campaign akins A kins farmers to reduce their acreage tor for the 1934 and 1915 crops so BO that the return front a bushel of wheat will wil be once more what it was in the pro pre war period in ua its power to buy the th goods which larm carmera rs need th the toa goal of the wheat heat administration la in the 1914 basis on which 3 jacl B s ot of wheat would V the bill of goods pictured here I 1 |