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Show Farmers Have Less to Worry ThemThisTime Washington, D. G Farm prlees stand at 208 per eent ef the 1909-191 average higher than the prices of 1918 and will drop again bot not as sharply as in 1021 because the Government Gov-ernment is required by law to maintain main-tain support prlees of at least 90 per cent of parity for two fall calendar years following the year in which the war ends. The Department of Agriculture Agri-culture has announced. The announcement Indicates the farmer will not be a victim of a drop in prices similar to that which followed fol-lowed the last war in 1921 when prices hit the low of 118 per cent of the May, 1020, level which was 235 per cent of the 1909-1914 level. Thus the farmer will have more money than after the last war. War Finance Committee officials said that In addition to the maintenance main-tenance of the price level for two years, that non-farm families already nave, and are accumulating, weekly savings through the Payroll Savings Plan of the War Finance Division of the Treasury. This, they claim is proof the non-farm front will be much better able to support itself than after the last war during the normal loll of reconversion. Buyers of farm products prod-ucts will have the money to bny, it was said, and farmers' should avail 'themselves of the opportunity to acquire ac-quire War Bonds during the Victory Loan so as to have the money wltb which to modernize and handle the non-farm market demands that will be backed with eash to pay sustained prices during the two years after fighting censes. The Payroll Savings Plan has sold 118,000,000,000 in War Bonds to wage earners, that great bulk of non-farmers who will, if need be, enjoy the fruits of their savings In the reconvention recon-vention period and have the cash with which to support themselves. I Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. i Anderoon tdde that "prosperity of the tana depends primarily on furehu-' furehu-' ta power In the dtv." |