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Show Wallace Cautions Farmers Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace sees "trouble of the most desperate kind" looming before be-fore the corn, wheat and cotton farmers unless they are willing to cooperate with the government in facing new conditions. He calls attention to the necessity ne-cessity for some reduction in acreage acre-age or production and savs that while recent rises in prices of wheat, cotton and corn are com forting, the facts are what the farmers must necessarily -face. Cotton Cot-ton production this year willl add to a 13,000,000-bale carry-over and the wheat grower will pile his 1933 production on a 360,000,000-bushel carry-over. Luckily for wheat growers grow-ers the estimated crop this year will not exceed 600.000,000 bushels as compared with the average of about 850,000,000 bushels. Referring particularly to corn the Secretary points out that the corn gTower in the past twenty years, has lost a market for more than 20,000,000 acres of corn. The surplus has been cut down by the short crops of 1930 and 1931, especially es-pecially the former, which was the smallest in 29 years. Mr. Wallace Btates that we have today 11,000,-000 11,000,-000 fewer horses and mules on the farms now than 20 years ago and. therefore, 15,000,000 acres of surplus corn land. Moreover, the people of this country eat about 100,000,000 bushels bu-shels less corn than they did twenty years ago, entailing a lost market for another 3,000,000 acres of corn land. Even the hogs consume con-sume about 200,000,000 bushels less than they did in the past because of more efficient methods of feeding. feed-ing. Farmers should realize that thes; figures tell a stcry that cannot b? ignored wich safety. Certainly then? must ocme some regulation of production and some effective cooperation co-operation between agricultural interests in-terests unless the farmers of the country are willing to degenerato into a peasant class and subsist on a scale of living that is almost unthinkable. |