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Show heavily because of drouth, while' another coiporacion offered to insure in-sure income from every acre seeded and, as a result of price fluctuations, fluctua-tions, had to pay claims, even on perfect crops. The government proposes a plan whereby damages from any ' cause would be paid, except damage through the grower's negligence. negli-gence. Moreover, it urges the wisdom of basing such insurance on actual crop yield over a given period as the only method fair to either the grower or the company insuring him. Success, the department de-partment says, can only result from operations on a scale that distributes distri-butes the risk over wide territory, and is based on the most complete crop data, which Uncle Sam will soon be able to supply. The proposition pro-position is a big one, but we feel sure that if the government undertakes under-takes to work it out it will do so successfully. At least it will bring some kind of relief to the growers of this nation, providing provid-ing the plan does'nt meet with the misfortune of becoming a political issue!. CROP INSURANCE I or ye,-,rs there has been talk of wholesale crop insurance as a '"'""n of reclucitij. the; tr;mcnt of c hance in far min and nt last the Iji t r r j . til of A;;ric :ultuie after hint.; study of the; field and its I"'-" 'hilil tes, liai :y.r-r.H'- I he; belief that it wiU work out.' The ti'-.-d of yoine so' h prolec tion is plain, for eve ry year sees Lillions of doll .ri iuve t'-d in crops of all kinds, and mi llions of dolla.-s lost. Many 'tlic.'j-i will retail that some years ;ii;c insurance; com-pani'n com-pani'n off:r'.d to insure crops in certain Norl h w :i ern Slatcti an.d lost |