Grange Opposes Elan
Offered by Agriculture
House Committee
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and published in July,
of our organisation which
programs that will preserve
strengthen the traditional
farm system of American
ture and provide the farm
with income from agriculture
parable with other segments of our
economy with equal investments of
labor and capital.
We believe it to be in the nation
al interest to preserve the family
farm system. To. accomplish this
will require that farmers receite
a reasonable and equitable income
lo maintain a standard of living en
joyed by labor and industry.
To provide a reasonable and
equitable standard of living will re
quire a program of commodity sup
port prices with measures to bal
ance supply with demand of agri
cultural products. Such a program
must also, in the national interest,
reduce government costs caused by
.storage of surplus commodities un
-der our present program.
The proposal of the Committee
•on Economic Development to re
move two million farmers from ag
riculture by deliberately reducing
farm income and abandoning all
firm programs would have a dis
asterous effect upon the economy
of North Carolina, to say nothing
of the hardship paced upon the
family fanners of our State.
The success of North Carolina’s
agriculture has been largely brought
about by the success of the tobacco,
cotton and peanut programs. Our
State is composed of small farms
averaging only ninety-two acres per
farm, the lowest.in the Nation as
•compared with a national average
of three hundred thirty-six acres.
Land on the average farm in. this
State was valued at $12,634 at the
"beginning of 1962, and the buildings
were valued at an additional $6,477
per farm.
North Carolina also has many
small towns, villages and cross
roads stores that depend upon a
healthy agricultural economy. The
plan of the Committee on Econo
mic Development would not only
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It' would sever the deep
our rural families have
their communities, their
their schools, and their
those farmers displaced
the plan would find it most
difficult to compete in today’s la
bor market. They do not have the
skills and, since many are over mid
dle age, they are not adapted to
training in our industrial and voca
tional training programs. They
would merely join the ranks of the
unemployed in our cities.
' The 'proposal of CED is the plan
that big business has for the Amer
ican farmers. It should be crystal
clear to all of us in the field of ag
riculture that, unless we speedily
adopt a sound program that will
(1) balance supply and demand, (2)
reduce government costs and (3)
maintain farm income, then special
interests outside of agriculture will
write a program to their own lik
ing. Farmers, farm organizations,
commodity groups, and agricultural
leaders must remember that we
constitute only 9 per cent of the
Nation’s population. The other 91
per cent will not continue to tol
erate our failure to agree on a
sound and constructive program to
bring about the needed adjustments
in agriculture. If we do not do the
job, they will do it for us, and
quite likely, at our expense.
Both the North Carolina State
l hey usually come in during uie
first of the month, Hocutt explain
ed. “Usually the person has <
ed his address and we hav< '
notified.” -mmsm
Hocutt urged any person receiv
ing a social security check who
plans to move to report his new
address as soon as it is known.
Changes reported early in the
month will be shown on the next,
check. Otherwise, the check will go
to .the old address and there may
Grange and the National Grange
supported the principles embodied
in the Administrations' farm bill in
troduced this year. The State
Grange, based upon tiie policy
adopted by our members at its an
nual conventions, feels that this ap
proach is much to be preferred over
the plan of the Committee on Eco
nomic Development.
We are grateful to you and the
members of your committee for
your efforts to develop a workable
program for agriculture. Our or
ganization will continue to work
with you in any manner possible to
get such a program adopted.
With kindest regards.
Sincerely,
Robert W. Scott. Master
North Carolina State Grange
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