Show FARM PRICES IN WAR VAR TIME THE WORLD WAR I price o of 01 farm products with wheat at a to toof top of a bushel in 1917 and other othe items proportionately high harmed more farmers than it helped Such Sue prices encouraged them to buy landat land lane at exorbitant values and the mortgage mortgage mort mort- gage holders closed them out when neither principal nor interest could be paid as prices dropped to normal normal normal nor nor- mal or below after the close o othe of 01 the war In this war America does not have havethe havethe havethe the problem of feeding the greater greate part of Europe as it did from 1914 to 1919 Now our one customer i is England But war does make a dif dif- ference Top price of wheat in 1939 was 72 cents In 1941 top price pric was not not enough to encourage encourage encourage age high land values I |