Show agricultural RI CULTURAL NOTES THE inh TIIE it THE PAll MEKa AND IHK FOUL FOOD i by chester C davis da vis d agricultural Au adjustment at air i no it altal of stark facts can picture ill the aci injury ery that comes collies to ill the In dividu ill farm lam lies land la is parea el ed anil in a seabon ill tile ane agricultural adall adjustment administration e muse take lake account of those human problems leni so we are mapping evely ros pus sue bLoe means of help that ne iu can call ave vc in cooperation witti with uther other ted trai and blare iare agencies the kalmers lai in tile drought area who nae little taani pait in fit tile adjust ident programs tor for the alie basic crops hane one protection for their incont s wid buying power that was never L b boic adall available ibie tile the adjustment ti ilent pro 11 grams rains designed on oil the average to to brim pro production wider control and cut ut down own sur surpluses kurpius pIus also give mile I 1 needed help hell to 10 cooperating farmans far nier i when drought or other calamities kill kil their crops while it is necessary cesary no to tiring bring hack back tile the buying power of 01 the export crops by their production nation ully illy no man can call male inane any money out our of cf crop failures on oil his own tarui farm th way to to make the national reduction 1 is on oil a apro iro rata basis farm by farm that is the way we ine ime haie made it un till der tile the ent pro programs ali and now when crop failure hits producers of these have some assured income front from their benefit payments which make certain a mans mails buying power will not be rubbed out even if his crop falls fails utterly these payments are based on oil past average production hence their amount is 11 not lot diminished bv a crot crop failure they give the cooperating farmer an all assur illi elle of soli some le income no matter what happens the agricultural adjustment program therefore is the area greatest test farm farill crop income insurance operation ever undertaken anywhere in it the world a stop toward the goal of security from the harmful economic effects on oil individual farm business of natural calamities cut but the people in the drought areas need more help than the adjustment payments to cooperating fa banners can call give we intend to provide such help to the limit of our powers under ilio hie agricultural adjustment act other units unita of tl tle e government will wili usa I 1 their heir powers to bring aid to the trick en 11 regions since mum the be beginning inning of tile alie A A A A iro program grani people who represent certain elements le ments it iii our economic life have been viewing the possibly of crop failures with agatin they have taken a dolorous view s ince tile the atten attention tiO n of if the public has been drawn to 1 rought drought I conditions atter alter thorough study the experts of if tile the bureau of agricultural eco no homics tilles liane hae concluded that eliat the drough lias has not endami endangered bied the food supply of tile hie united states estates to illustrate take tile the filets on oil the wheat supply in 11 a normal year the people of the united states cat or feed to animals and save for seed for ill the next years crop 62 bushels of wheat that I 1 ii what N we nc c need for next yadi bushels the drought has damaged winter wheat prospects ts the crop aroi was forecast at Lus bushels liels on oil may imay 1 but say it declines still further and only KG bushels are harvested in III that event we should have with arith tile carryover carry over of some bill bushes lel a total supply of bushels and that thai does not allow for ill alie spring wheat crop een bien though it should L as short as the lie shortest cpr spring wheat crop in recent years it would lie be still aill about fous liels so attilli ith a I 1 very spring wheat crop and in an extra ordinary khrt winter white i wheat prop crop our big carryover would give us its ample supplies of wheat for the Col coming year do not take it that tile lie economists predict a very short spring wheat crop and a winter wheat crop of only husli boushely bu shely no one can call accurately pre diet those harvests at present the simple assumed ill alie worst possible outturn out ont turn in order to demonstrate that if worst comes to worst the public is in no danger of going on oil short rations of domestic wheat the situation with respect to oil fowl staples is tile the same saine as for wheat tile the country does not face a food shortage tage if lily any of our people tail fall to be well nourished it will be because our so piety biety has not provided the means for them hiam to 0 o buy bur the food it will rot not be bc our farmers failed to produce ill the food we V have piled up great surpluses pluses of foodstuffs which we used to sell formerly if a i crop shortage developed we could take that part of a crop alich would have been py ev ported and turn it to domestic it uses lor instance that happened with wheat in ill 1921 1925 the crop was short less than bushels bubels vi we e lind lieen producing bu bushels hels and pv porting around bush buh PIR so when our crop fell to ao 00 lous bushels hels we simply ent cut down dowil our exports to less than bushels anve V e dipped into normal export supplies to teed food our own people aut it tile the rest resl oi if the leopie of the nation say to ill the farm people we NN r plan to continue with tariff and othol policies puli cies that will bar you permanently out of the world market then the farmers will have to bring bring their production down to the domestic level in the agricultural adjustment administration and the department of agriculture 1 we are going to work to hold the farmers share of any market that is open to the nation but if our farmers are forced back to the home market only we nye salt sal try to ameliorate their lot by the use of ill alie domestic allotment plan to avert price bi caking surpluses and assure farmers a 1 I fair income nation should brt bo bussu assured red of a heavy reserve sup supply p I 1 y 0 fowl to protect its people against any ally possible shortage in such times its as this drought year that rakes questions of how to set up machinery that will keep the reserves on oil land hand but hold them iu in such it way that they will not boar bear down too heavily on oil the price of crops in fit normal years maybe we haie haae hit bit upon part of the solution in ill the idea of le lending tiding on corn stored on farms rm ji is now lie aig done by the agricultural adjustment administration and the c commodity animo city credit corporation perhaps we shall have io to use power powers granted 1 l anted to the government Goern gw eminent ment under the agricultural rl cultural adjustment act to remove crop surpluses for pe perhaps 1 other devises and ana powers will i ti necess necessary ary we are thinking thin kine of these matters now and preparing pre to make provisions for the lie future however it will lie unnecessary sarv to use adv special action this year to avert a food chor shortage taze the pra problem blein is to keet keep ample food ro reserves erve you ean can take it for granted that this will lie aio done the Ani anserlean erlean people will have adequate supplies of food produced bv their own fa farmers T T a hope that these farmers will continue it buile tuile to have at least as lood good protection against ii the hazards of weather and other natural forces as the pr present e sent domestic allotment plan affords them |