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Farmers Have Come A Long Way During Past Twenty Years 4 More Than Sixty Thousand tin--m * Farms Foreclosed In 1932 .. • s % Workers Ob Farms Have Had Part In The March Ahead -» There Arc More Owners Ami Fewer Tenants In T|iis Country Now rty Confressman Priee of Illinois Farm life by and 'arge has changed since the old days from poverty living to American living, from fatback standards to beef stake standards. That is the sim ple fact behind all the talk about agricultural programs. American farmers and their wives have achieved this change through their own hard work Fad farmers have always worked hard. They worked hard during the 1920’s and over half a mil linn of them went hi nice They worked hard in 11)22 -and by the end of the year Wi re all viiluaUy bankrupt. In the pas' twenty years, new policies have made the difference while most of the Old fluaid were still obstructing. I Prices up, Production up, In come up In 11)112 farm families in the | \ w(»i.\.rs work"-! v-; A woman's work on a Ba varian farm was revealed in 1 stulistical aperca when a ru ral hausfrau opened her diary to the publir Raze. In 30 years she had given birth to 8 children; she had prepared 50,900 meals plus 133 holiday dinners, and had baked 33, 400 loaves of bread and 7. 890 cakes; she had spent 43, 080 hours housecleaninR, had made 300 children’s dresses, 994 Women’s dresses and men's suits, and 334 pairs of socks; and .she had rained 3,800 chickens and 330 pigs, involving 1,314,000 meals for animals. And, of rnurse, In her spare time she kept one diary.— l oiled Nations World Midwest found it cheaper to burn corn !<>i fuel than In btiv entd. In HW2 wv bail sunk to lit) cent " beat, 1 be corn, .be eelton, He “ ‘ '!* beel, a« w.uil and He siuiai'. Compare these vv ith today's prices. In I!J:>2 farm prices were ■l > percent below parity At the end ot 1 Hal ihe\ sloud 7 percent above parity Farm production meanwhile has j jumped almost 50 percent since j 1032. Net income for the average farmer (excluding inventory gains') stood at nearly $2800 in 1951—almost ten times the 1932 figure. In terms of purchasing j power, the average farmer's in come has nearly quadrupled. Democratic government helped bring these changes not only through its farm policies -em bodied in the Agricultural Ad justment Acts, the Soil Conserva tion Act, the Commodity Credit Act but by reviving all .parts of the economy together, thus in creasing farm markets. t II. More Owners, Fewer Ten ants Today nearly three-quarters of all farmers own their farms, a higher proportion than at any time since 1(180 Between 1880 and the early 1930's a predominantly Repoh lican period each decade showed more and more farmers losing their farms, being forced into ten anev Hut 1932, over 32 percent of the counlry's farms were run hv tenants Since 1932, thanks to Democra lic policies, this lift\ your Hi pub lican trend away from owner operation lias not only been re versed hut its results have been completely wiped out. If the Republican trend had continued, nearly half of Amen ea's farms would today he 'upend eil by tenants Instead, only about a quarter of them are. If tins achievement equals “dependence" ■ a “socialism”, then truly a camel i in go through a needle's eye III Front the Sheriff at the Door to 91 Percent Fquity. In 1932, 1711 farms were fore closed each and every day of the1 year In 1950, less than three far mers a clay suffered foreclosures Most farmers in 1932 were ir tuallv bankrupt. Today American farm owners hold an equity in then properties of 91 percent, about ten times as much as the total farm debt. IV From Banks that Charged High and Then Closed Their doors To Cheap Loans, Safe Savings In 1932, 1,453 hanks failed, with great losses to depositors Last year not a single depositor m any insured bank suffered a penny of loss or a moment of delay. By 1922. American farmers had man |aged to conserve only 53 billion in savings. By 1951, they had $22 billion saved up. In 1932, farm credit was both expensive and hard to get Since 1933. Farm Credit Administration agencies have remedied this by making more than five million cheap loans, totalling $20 billion. More than 2.000.000 small farmers nave gotten loan help from the Farmers Home Administration. V. Farming Alsu Has Come A Long Way Electrification, through REA co operatives, has transformed American farming and modern ized farm life In the early 1930's only one farm in ten had power line service. Now nearly nine out |of ten farms have such service, ■And since 1949 REA has begun ,to repeat the same store on tele phones. Public power, in such areas as the Tennessee and Columbia river valleys, has greatly aided in re .making farming in those regions. Tractors and other equipment have also transformed farming. In 193(1, American farmers had only 92(1,000 tractors Today (hey have 3.940.(100 or more ' I»V«‘ I ft a 1 v I m>< s as many Today I here are 2 1 2 'times as many trucks on farms as in 1930 nearly seven times as many milking machines ten times as many mechanical corn pickers thirteen times as many grain combines. Conservation, with government 4 help, is transforming the future for farmers, f.ast year more than MiO.OtiO i -■ vaviii.vi. out one or more sod or water eonserva t on practices, in complete con rtast to the oh) days of mining the ..a o,..-p tahe the future Research, greatly expanded by Democratic government, has prov ed of tremendous value-. Hybrid corn returns about $1 billion a year: total research costs were $10 million Cotton-ginning improve ments save $25 million a year, at a cost of $200,000 a year. Pheno thiazine, a remedy for internal parasites of livestock, saves $10 million a year. Research cost: $10. 000 Invest a mite in research, and get a pound. Yields, as a result of these dif erent forms of progress, have in creased for crops by more than •tO per cent in the past 25 years Milk per cow is up 25 per cent. Hggs per him are up about 50 per cent. Increased yields add $10 bil lion a year nearly a third to gross farm income . Kfficiency of work has also in creased hy 75 per cent since 1022 in terms of farm output per man hour. Cooperation the democratic way has replaced the old dog oat-dog competition of Republi can theories Today, farmers co operate not onl\ m the KKA, the I'Vderal h.i’id Hanks and prndne tii>n credit associations, hut also vnp democratica11 \ oil marketing ipiolas Kleeled committeemen ad minister the price support and eonservation prog,rams. fnslead of being independently free to go broke, farmers are now independently and eonpei atively free to pi neper. VT Farm Workers Have Shared In Progress Today, farm v. ;rk- t’-oaco nil' than ever before Farm wage rates have increased from 13c an hour in 1932 to 62e an hour in 1951. ..nr) Thee ;y.o- ; :,e e, , has nearly doubled Farm vend? ers, moreover, now have a much better chance to get ahead When farm wages started to rise some farmers nbiected. hot hv now nearly everyone sees not on ly the justice hut the necessity that all share in prosperity and progress. Farm prosperity is based largely ort high incomes and wages among city workers who buy fond anil clothing, High far tm y wages in turn lead inevitably U high wages The mrih is that we must all t;«> forward together. And trial is the purpose—the achievement and M"'-" ■ ' , , <- a.-. e» , t.v. , \ , government. Democratic govern merit works not as the tool of an , one group, but • award pro.ua rit;. and justice or all. In agriculture, Democratic gov ernment recognizes that much still remains to he done The price support program must be stren gthened and made more effee live Fhe problem of supporting Prices of perishables must he nlv cl! The conservation program mil l be completed. The farm tele , t-'.' J or* !V'U I hr pH'li-sf* ahead a.. coon .1 materials are available, and electrification mast he carried completely through. ■ ~ ' i ' 1 ‘ . pfcl. I tf : conics of the poorer farmers, are ■till too low compared to the in comes of other groups. They must be raised, . Undo! Demon otic government, farmer have come a Jong way. Under Democratic government, they will advance even further in the future. The farmer's only insurance for continued progress lies ip Demois atie government. MOUNTAIN RIDGE STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY *065 . $030 V4/5QT. im PT. 4 Year* Old. 86 Proof, OOODERHAM t WORTS. I TP , PrOR! 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