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Show RESTRICTIONS ON PACKERS IS OPPOSED BY FARMERS LANSING. Mich., July 31. Tho American farm bureau federation plans to ask the department ot justice jus-tice to modify restrictions on the packing Industry' under which the packers were forced a few months ago to discontinue wholesaling ot products other than meals and meat by products, according to an announcement an-nouncement at the Michigan farm bureau headquarters today. The restrictions, the bureaus an-nounccment an-nounccment said, had all but elim inated compel ii ion in certain commodities com-modities thereby greatly reducing prices paid farmers, while prices to consumers had remained virtually unchanged. That condition, it wan said applied particularly to canned fruits and vegetables, |