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Show DO BUMPER CROPS PAY Secretary Hoover finds that during the ten years before 1914 our production did not keep up with our consumption, and that our export surplus decreased to an average of six and one-half million tons a year just before the war. In the nine years since, production has steadily increased, has provided for a 13,000,000 increase of population and has brought our export surplus up to about 1 7,000,000 tons per annum. This has been done with a declining farm population compared with the country's growth as a whole. Farmers have increased their production nearly 20 per cent, and this year raised a bumper wheat crop only to find a reduced re-duced export demand and the price under the dollar rnrk for the first time since the war. If we are going to play safe, it is plain what must happen to bring farm prices into line. Cut down on trying to raise bumper crops quit putting most of the c'gs in one basket. Get in the hen, hog and cow busine' :;, too. I he farmer farm-er who does that will not have to worry about Europe and won t be in danger of going broke. |