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Show Industry Prospers Whca Farmer Has Bioro Cash to Spend Farm buying power and industrial indus-trial prosperity go hand in hand, as shown by a comparison of changes chang-es in farm income with changes in farm machinery, fertilizer, mail order, or-der, and other rural retail sales, according to figures compiled by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Eco-nomics, United States Department of Agriculture and issued through the Utah State Agricultural college extension service. From 1929 to 1932 when farm cash income decreased by six billion bil-lion dollars, retail, sales dropped five billion dollars, farm machinery machin-ery sales were 400 million dollars less, fertilizer sales were 2Vi million mil-lion tons less, and mail order sales dropped by nearly 300 million dollars. dol-lars. From 1932 to 1936 farm cash income in-come did not quite double, yet rural retail sales gained 60 per cent, nearly four times as much farm machinery was bought, fertilizer fer-tilizer sales more than 50 per cent greater, wnile mall order sales set a new top record for all time in nearly doubling from the low point of 1932. |