Show improvement SEEN IN FARM SITUATION secretary of agriculture wallace inserts isserts that the farmers purchasing power is increasing slowly he says that this comes canies about through recent advances in prices of principal farm products and some decreases in prices of other things the secretary observes that this is a hopeful sign not only to retailers but to industry in general there may be occasional recessions in ili prices of farm products but the low period seems to be past pas and the trend is upward the stiffening of the prices for hogs is especially ally encouraging almost half the corn grown in the larger corn producing states is marketed in it the form of hogs with hogs at present prices the farmer is getting from 50 to 75 cents a bushel tor for ills his corn depending on his nearness to market secretary wallace believes that we I 1 cannot hope for a return of the good old times until we restore the normal relationship between the prices of the things the farmers have to sell and of the things they have to buy lie he explains as follows farm prices are below the prewar pre war prices but wages in ill the highly or industries railroad rates machinery clothing taxes interest rates are all still far above prewar pre war prices this sort of thing cannot continue prices of these other things must come down and prices of farm products must come up until the relationship between them is fairly normal once more |