Show FAILURE OF FARM PROGRAMS This year the Department of Agriculture win pay farmers about 31 not to grow crops In the ame period the same d win spend something like million to hungry families arld school children It is ask ing the congress for additional money to ex the programs the growing program the bIggest are the big land own ers They get the bIggest checks Cor letting the biggest plots lie Idle At the same time ome small farmers are not allowed to grow crops they need Cor animal feed be cause the acreage has been taken out of pro Secretary of Agriculture Freeman says that both of the contradictory programs crop and food purchase for the hungry arc necessary to combat poverty lIe holds that if government payments to bIg operators were ruled out not enough land be idle to meet hIs restrictions and that Ing surpluses would sult rt-sult Today something like 35 millIon are receiving free including meats and foodstuffs Approximately 25 million more are enrolled In the load stamp The smaller farmer is reduced to working out special loans assistance in finding non non- farm s In areas with the help of the managers In Washington It is that like 50 million acres of land are being held out of production But simultaneously the govern ment is underwriting water development pro cds designed to put new land into production Many farm experts the leaders of the American Farm Bureau Federation believe that the farmer would fare better un er private se Some Including Paul Finlay of Illinois believe that the farmer programs have contributed to If they have not created the present farm chaos He urges both city dwellers and farmers to demand the return of agriculture to the free Why not The present programs seem not notto to help the consumer or the farmer Only the bureaucrats |