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Show MOKE PIGS IN THE OFFING. There is good news in store for the expectant pig mothers of 193C. There will be no pig control program by the AAA and no slaying or drowning drown-ing of innocent baby porkers. The announcement has been made by the secretary of agriculture. A thirty per cent greater pig population is anticipated. an-ticipated. Of course, according to the election elec-tion conducted by the AAA, the farmers of the middle west voted six to one for a continuance of the corn-hog corn-hog control program. But so far as ' pigs are concerned next year, in spite of the election returns, Secre- tary Wallace's planners have decided to let nature take its course. The farmers voted for checks for not raising pigs but the consumers in the cities have screamed loudly against the high price of pork. Evidently Evi-dently the complaints of the consumers con-sumers made more noise than the votes of the farmers. The result is a lifting of porcine birth control for one year at least, but the secretary of agriculture has announced that he will be back with another hog-control program in 1937. Mr. Wallace failed to attach any statement that his return might be conditional on the result of the national election next year. One thing which has been perplexing perplex-ing the experts of the AAA has been the fact that the country has a big corn crop with not enough pigs to eat the corn. So next year there will be a boom in the production of pigs and a curtailment in the production of corn. So perhaps in 1936 we will go into reverse and have a big pig crop but not enough corn to supply the pigs. This is something which will be up to the weather man as w-ell as to the professors who write the logarithms loga-rithms on Secretary Wallace's official offi-cial blackboard. 1 Mr. Wallace is evidently aware of the fact that pork is high. In his statement there is mention of a "drouth enforced pork shortage." The slaughter of six million little pigs at the instance of the AAA and the adding of the processing tax to the price of the housewife's pork roast are discreetly passed over in silence. Of course the pig killing program pro-gram of the AAA had nothing to do with the pork shortage. It was all due to the drouth. The weather was so dry that the mamma pigs just wilted and gave up the idea of giving giv-ing birth to new families. I But here is the catch in the whole .tiling. Jf the pig curtailment program, of 1931 didn't have anything 1 .to' with the scarcity of )ork then how is the lifting of this curtailment pro-' vision going to increase the supply now? The two things just don't jibe and we would like to have the AAA ':r.lain thi."! problem to us, For we were educated in the "horse and buggy" days and don't seem able to understand lids New Deal monkey business, or should' we say piggy business? |
