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Show ROLLO-glypfiics 000 bushels of corn. How much will you pay me for not raising rais-ing lOO.IMjo' bushels of corn which I will not feed the hogs 1 am nut raising?" The story shculd he funny, but many representatives in Washington don't think it is. Last year farm subsidy cost tlie American tax payer over $3.5 billion. But although there were 6 million farms in 1910 there are only 3 million today,' many of them having gone broke. Although an estimated 20 million people have mi-, glared from the farm to the cities, there are still 14 million mil-lion poor people in rural areas. And although thousands thous-ands of farmers today barely make ends meet, one farm operation op-eration in Texas was paid $1)12,000 last year for not raising rais-ing cotton. Isn't it about time that something was clone about this program? Be careful about swimming too soon after eating. A muscle mus-cle cramp might result in' your being unable to swim and could be your downfall '. Some of you have undoubtedly undoubt-edly heard the story of the man who wanted to "not raise hogs" in order to be eligible for farm subsidy payments, but it seems fitting at this time to again call attention to the problems of farm sub-siby sub-siby and the need for a solution. solu-tion. After three and a half decades de-cades and billions of dollars, the U. S. farm subsidy program pro-gram has evolved into a seemingly seem-ingly impenetrable economic bog leading nowhere. The story goes that a farmer wrote to the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture telling them that a neighbor of his had just received re-ceived a $1000 check from the government for not raising hogs. "This is to Inform you," (so the letter goes) "that I am going into the not-raising-hog business. But I need to know: what is the best kind of farm not to raise hogs on, and what are the best kind of hogs not to raise? I would prefer not to raise Poland Chinas, but if that is not a good breed not to raise, I will bo happy not to raise, Berkshires or, Durocs. "The hardest work in this business, as far as I can see. is keeping an inventory on how many hogs I haven't rais-erl. rais-erl. My neighbor has been raising hogs for 20 years and the best he ever made was $100 until this year when he got $1,000 for not raising 50 hogs. I figure to operate on a small scale at first, starting witli not raising 100 hogs which will get me $2,000 and then holding myself down to not-raising -1,000 hogs which means I will get $80,000. Now another thing: these hogs 1 will not raise will not eat 100,. j |