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Show Washington Farm News MONEY FOR FARMERS MORE THAN A BILLION FOOD STAMP PLAN DIETS FOR HEALTH CILANCE FOR NEW START Not very many years ago the nation was boasting of a "billion dollar" Congress, wihdch mas taken las an indication cf extravagance on the part of legislators. This year the Congress has provided pro-vided more than a IbiUion dollars for the alctivities of the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture, wthiohi might ba taken as an indication of the .T.portance of the fan.ro problem in jbe cl. anion of legislators. Belo. will be found: an itemization itemi-zation of t.ie appropriation, which will give farmers sa.r.ie idea of how Jhe $1,194,173,633 is allocated: $499,560,000 for Soil Conservation Act of 1936 and AAA of 1938. $225,030,000 fcr parity payments on wheat, c:tton, corn, rice and iobicco. $113,000,000 for disposal of surplus ici.r.imcdities. $47,975,000 under Sugar Act of 1937 $40,000,000 for Bankhead Jones Faim Tenant Aot of 1937. $1,987,400 for resettlement projects; pro-jects; $4,978,330 for land utilization and retirement of suib-rnargiinal landL $28,150,000 for Fan.u Credit Ad-:.r.(inistration, Ad-:.r.(inistration, including $15,000,000 for crop iifrodiuctjan and $9,500,000 for Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation. Corpor-ation. $23,720,584 far Soil Conservation Service. $10,000,000 for forest roads and ..rails. $191,000,000 for Bureau of Pubilc RJ:ads, including $125,000,000 for Highway system, $25,000,000 for secondary or feeder roads, anal $40,-000,000 $40,-000,000 for grade crossing elimination. elimin-ation. Insect Pest Act provides $1,750,000 for fight on griasshcippers, Moil.r.on crickets, chinch bugs, etc. Announicexient that Ws Food Stamp plan for distributing surplus agricultural d:ixonodities will be expanded ex-panded gradually during the next few months calls attention to the successful operation of the idea ,.',l.iere it has been tried!. While it is too early to pr-mouiice the scheme a grand success or bo label it a potent factor in meeting the present ills of agriculture the stamp plan has possibilities cf be-cor.'.ng be-cor.'.ng a great agency of relief for consumers as well as producers. H- vir.g operated only tl1;' 'and e half '..r.icnti-.G in Rochester, N. Y. wi'-ere it 'alas first tried, the plan is in its icital stages and officals consider con-sider results thus far obtained! 'as ireliixanary." It is safe to ii.ssrii.i-, however, that if the future experiments experi-ments produce the s.lr.le resuJ.s n.'ted already that the idea wall be vastly enlarged. Some observers foresee the m- fottia and the possib.Uty that t-food t-food stn : I rs may eventually be th-ffl.ns th-ffl.ns of distributing surplus commodities com-modities to thcusands of families m C.ie lew wage gix)U.1. Se-retary Wallace says that if fur studies show encouraging remits re-mits the plan may develep into an effective naticnal program, to move, urplus agriouitural p.odns and to D'ovide more food fU those ol ,?jr ple who n:'.v have inadequate diets. Be'ter living for the family ,v. , cr hotter health continued t-.throug.-J tetter neai iB cf raM?Xrs'on farms last year according to reports ircn e-SSon e-SSon workers in bone econun.. of the ii-me u nartmunities. in 'more than "S,Kraai to .nomen and 4-H cluo g o that they canned A total fruits, vegetables and meata a of 407,000 fellies servea balanced meals as a res x. tass- a Tti-ls in 16,138 sichools fSk U00n 1Unh br0U8ht iZaijf ler the "uia use Program buys out fp irSJ1taarCa 'Pto afford hH ss-My mean i move? aUilies wU1 i:ave ,- Jn,e Federal Department of Ag-'o'.lture Ag-'o'.lture ,has now had dealings wrt-ubout wrt-ubout 13,000 cf these f;x h,o?St M ''e ib find3 are able t:. lelocate t.-iemselves satisfactorily.! Sellmg out usually a-,eans a elcore' -ia..aice to make a new start. I Most cf the families that need help m relocaUng .are already se-1 verely i.ndicapped. Many of the 'tads- of families are elderly. Forty per;it of .ail the owiiets bought out ere more than 50 years oli, compared com-pared with about 30 percent the Exe r.e in the general group cf ijhtj owners. Ill health, ranging from psllrgra to paralsis is crtr.on. Limited education and large families are the rule. Many have teen cn r-ehei. |