The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-08-13
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Beverly Hills-Well all I know
is just what I read in the papers.
Been under the weather and been
doing nothing but reading and talk
ing some pills, and trying to talk
the doctor out of some more grub.
Good deal Of debts have gone under
the auctioneer's hammer since. I
last communed with you. Both pri-
vate and National and Information
al. Germany got Moratorium, the
big International Bankers got theirs
guaranteed, taxpayers got another
assessment and the farmers got ex.
actly what everybody had been pre-
dieting they would get-two bits for
their wheat. But we are told that
indirectly this good that we did
Germany will trickle to get throu
the weeds and mortgages.
Course here is one thing where
the Farm Board is right Il haven't
heard that in so long that it scared
me when I wrote it DOWN.. They
told the Farmers not to plant so
much wheat they said there was
going to be big supply this fall,
and you knew yourself that they
hadent sold last years crop. So I
kinder string with the Farm Board
in that. You know the Farmers
don't use their own heads a whole
lot. Some Of EN- don't even use any
bodys.
Now it was last year that the
Farm Board bought up all this
wheat, and had nothing to do with
it. From the day they started buy
ing the first bushel it started going
down, and no matter how fast they
bought, it went down faster. Well
there you was. You hadent put in
this years wheat yet. Now Russia
had an awful mess Of it, and If
you read, you knew that they would
lose money on it in order to take
away some one else's market, es-
pecially us. You knew that they
would perhaps under the five year
plan put in more wheat than ever
before, because they amt supposed
to know how to raise anything else.
Now then here is the Farm Board
with their millions of bushels. Gran
aries full Of private wheat. The
worst depression in years. Now I
just want to ask one question.
What in the world made any farm
er think that things could possibly
be any better than they was when
he planted the wheat? Had he been
listening to Chamber Of Commerce
speeches? How did anyone think
that just over night we was going
like we used too? So why would a
man, knowing the amount of wheat
that was going to be on the market
the next year, knowing that no.
body was going to have anything to
buy it with If they did want 1t, why
would he go and gamble everything
he had in more wheat?
We used to think that a wheat
farmer was smarter than cotton
farmer, and the wheat one thinks
so yet (Well maby not now). But
by golly, it looks like there amt no
way to get any people to cut down
on anything as long as they think
the other fellow ought to do the
cutting down first. There is some
excuse for the cotton planter, es-
pecially the renter one, for he has
to put in what he is told too or
else, and he hasent enough machin-
cry and stock to put in anything
else. But with the wheat farmer
its most generally man that Is his
own boss. He generally owns the
land, or has it rented to do with
what he likes.
So it looks like he Is going to
do the same as the south has
with its cotton, Just go broke with
it and be buried right in the patch,
but he is going top liant plenty of
cotton. You know there is few
thing that even the Government
cant protect you against. even If
they wanted too, unless they send
you to an asylum. Now here is
where the Government made their
mistake; they said Don't raise 50
much wheat" so you raised It, and
they can't say they told you not
to-" But they dident tell You not to
raise anything and everything else
has been a. low as wheat. See?