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Show Free Advice To Farmers Farmers contemplating theii procedure for 1932 might as well assume that the only help they will get is from themselves. Consequently, Con-sequently, they should survey their own situation and make plans to be in the best shape possible next fall. To do this requires that each farm, as far as possible," be self-supporting, self-supporting, raising the food and feeds necessary for man and beast, and using such surplus land as may be available for other products. pro-ducts. The farmer who can live without buying things to eat is able to face the future without suffering, and can certainly get enough money from other crops to pay his taxes and interest. If all farmers did this during 1932 there would be quite a different differ-ent price for the large staple, money crops next fall. Of course, there would be absentee planters, who would try to disregard sound farm economy and plant only huge cash crops. These could be handled, hand-led, however, by legislation placing plac-ing a tax on their products unless they conformed a balanced farming farm-ing program. |