Show WALTER SHEAD 4 drop seen in farm prices ON GRESSIONAL congressional mail today from rural areas and small C v towns of the country points to the drop in fa farm rn prices ices as th the 11 only break in the inflationary spiral genera generally 11 firl these he se letters te rs say that while the farmers are will willing ling to take a cut from th the abnormally high farm prices something should be done to relieve them of of the brunt of the price cut that la Is the things tha th farmer must buy should bs be cut proportionately insofar as this reporter can find out however economists here do not no look tor for much of a letdown in prices for several months As for farm prices themselves tile the consensus Is 1 that t they hey will go down gradually until they reach tile the parity floor when abe rov eminent will have to step into tile din picture and biggin buying to maintain tho the 00 90 per cent of parity program Or secretary of agriculture anderson andersen has temporarily withdrawn from the grain buying picture but he still has about million bushels of wheat to buy to m meet oct tho the governments export commitments when he does step back into the grain market probably about april 1 he will be buying to 4 t support farm prices as well oa as to meet overseas commitments As A s it now looks tho farm income for 1048 1043 likely will be some gomo 18 per cent under und or the total or about equal to the 1840 1040 income which was a record high g h until topped by 1047 jn in tho the meantime not many farmers were wera hurt by the spectacular grain drop most of them having sold before the crash |