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Show Here's A Reason American business cannot expect to improve greatly until the gross Income of the farmers increase. According to the department of Agriculture, the income from all farm productions in 1931 did not exceed $6,920,000,000. This is a drop of more than two and one-fourth one-fourth billion dollars from 1930 and almost five billion dollars from 1929. Compared with the year 1929 these figures mean that the farmers farm-ers of the country would have had seven billion dollars more to spend In the last two years if their products pro-ducts had brought the same returns re-turns as in 1929. |