The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16

be considerably reduced, and on
the basis of reports, the secretary |
estimates that the domestic con-
sumption will be as much as 80 !
per cent of the declining crop. 1t
is barely conceivable that the
price will have risen, and for your
so per cent you will receive price
which amounts to even a small
profit.
Is it hard to imagine what will
follow?
If you are not unlike the major
ity of your fellow farmers, you
have a mortgage hanging over
your head. 1t is probable that
this mortgage is held by an in
surance company. Insurance COM
panies hold 20 per cent of the farm
mortgages). Not at last the in
surance company sees a chance to
capitalize on its land holdings and
smack! you are foreclosed.
REDUCED TO LOWER
STANDARDS
This does not mean, under the
domestic allotment plan, that you
will necessarily be evicted. 1t is
becoming increasingly clear that
the federal government and the
big bankers are little afraid of
wholesale evictions. But under the
domestic allotment plan, it is not
necessary to drive you off the land
in order to profit by your labor.
Under this plan you have a fran
chise to produce wheat at a high
er than world price. The Insur-
ance company will foreclose your
franchise and transfer this right
to raise and sell high to lands adj
joining those it already holds. 1t
may even transfer it to more fer
tile ground. At any rate, the In
! surance Company has the right to
profits and you have nothing but
the dismal prospects of peasant
life.
NO CASH FOR GROCERIES
Nothing will prevent you from
raising wheat if you desire, Cane
have production funds) but for
, your wheat you will receive tn,
/ world price, far below your cos
/ of production. Your only alterna
: tive, outside of resistance, is Il
accept the Give at home" program
r of the Department of Agricultur
2 and produce only for your owl
5 use. And this means no cash fo
: coffee, sugar and clothes except
i, what the Red Cross or some othe
s charity allows you.
: If you ask why this should haI
: pen to you, you will be told tina
!, you are one of the "inefficien
e farmers" and that the Voluntar
n Domestic Allotment plan is dc
e signed to help the efficient
o farmer. 1t will occur to you tina
by inefficient" the governmer
means all Of the average farmer
the small and middle farmers. B
a efficient" farmers, it means tn
{ large land owners, the corporatio
! farms, the chain farms, the bi
business side of agriculture.
u The domestic allotment pla
f thus would hasten a program a
0 ready sponsored by big bushes
/ E. G. Nourse, agricultural econt
l. mist, speaking before the Fort
v Second Annual Meeting of tt
) American Economic Association
II 1880, extolled the significance
; mechanical, large scale farmin
d which would result in culling OF
# three-quarters of our farmers wi
IS show themselves to be the poo
is est business managers" In Il
~ circles of experts" one freuuen
e ly hears the phrase of "retirir
4 farmers from production" TIL
IS purpose, the bankers hope, the d
A. nestle allotment plan will achiev
POOR FARMERS GO BACK
er TO THE HORSE
= George Soule, an economist al
M one of the editors of the New r
~ public, discusses the question
=, the current Harper's Month
~ Magazine. "But what are u
of wanted farmers to do? he ash
M "They cannot find jobs in the ia
m tories Farmers by the tho
no sands have been forced out
p crop selling. Not all of them q