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Show Farrell Analyzes Farmers' Problems at Logan Meet "Our framers in their struggles to dispense with their crops and surpluses are asking the federal government to devise machinery , and create laws to relieve them and help maintain a price level which will insure them a livlihood," George E. Farrell, director of the Agricultural Adjustment Adminls-,fJa;ion Adminls-,fJa;ion for the western region told r "visitors" to the Utah State Agricul-I Agricul-I tural College extension conference I and philosophy school in Logan last" week. "They are looking for scire way of more nearly adjusting output to consumption," he asserted. assert-ed. When he has a surplus of produce pro-duce a farmers income is even smaller than when his farm production pro-duction is near no ,mal. Furthermore, Further-more, the loss which the farmer sustains wheri he sells his product f;r less than the cost of production dees not mean a reduction of price to the consumer. For example, the price of a loaf of bread is just as ! I high n:-w as when wheat was $1.25 i I a bushel." Mr. Farrell charged. i The difficulties with which the I ; farmers are confronted in attempt-I attempt-I j ing to dispose of their crops in the j ! face cf heavy surpluses and declining de-clining p ices are some of the more j j important problems of rural life, he pcints out. , Discussing the 1938 agricultural program son to be launched by the AAA Mr. Farrell said that conser-! conser-! vation p actices and potato goals j will be announced in the next few days and that sugar beet payments i would be made as congress made i the necessary app opriation. |