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Show COMMENTS Now The-v Know How The Farmer Feels! Consumers who recently had the coupons in their ration books summarily invalidated, can appreciate the problems that face the farmer under 57 varieties of regulations and restrictions. Ordinarily the farmer plans production schedules years in advance. Investments in crops are made on the basis of probable prices at harvest time. Long experience with the laws of supply and demand teach the farmer what he must grow if he is to stay out of bankruptcy. At , least that is the way the farmer operated before the age of regulation and subsidies decended upon him. Now, like the consumer, he knows wha,t to expect next. A government directive may cut his acreage, reduce prices when his crop is ready to harvest, har-vest, or put him out) of business. It is not a nice way to live. |