The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-23

acres on this farm was $40. My taxes on this same land amount to about $44.1e.
 'sBefore prices took a jump" he said, "1 could buy a 4OO-pound packing SOW for 90 cents a hundred or 13.80. At the same time I went to q meat market and priced q 20- pound smoked ham. 1t was S3.20. T told them to 20 to hell; I'd buy a whole hog and cut off a ham,"
 sturtz is helping distribute free milk, eggs and cream to the fam- flies who need 1t in Boone. The Achievement Show, similar to county fair, was attacked by Sturtz as an unnecessary expendi- ture of $2,000 which might be used in relief work. The show was at its height last night and there be- side an exhibit of big, smooth po- tatoes sat c. A. Primrose. Primrose, in a tight-fitting cap and blue overalls, is farmer who wants prices to go up but thinks the strike Ifs starting at the wrong end of the line."
 While four Poland China hogs grunted contentedly in a pen nenr- by. Primrose striked his stubble of beard and explained that he feels the unemployment problem must be solved before farmers can expect to find normal markets for their crops.
 You can't expect people to buy or pay high prices for food when they are out of jobs and have no money" he declared. "If we just let things alone they gradu- ally will right themselves but 1t don't help any to make a fuss about it."
 Primrose. who is buying his farm on contract and who hopes things twill get better soon so he can make the next payment, was in- censed at the violence.
 You've just seen the start of It." he said. We won't stand by and see our cream dumped. If we don't get protection we'll protect our- selves"
 City and county officials have taken protection" steps. Chief of Police James B. Reid ordered all pickets to say outside the city lim- its. The sheriff volunteered to provide an escort for all truckers who ask it.
 The trucks from which the cream was dumped yesterday were operated by Lowell Wilson and Clifford Johnson for the Boone and Peerless dairies. Informations charging malicious destruction of produce were filed against two farmers whose names were with held pending their apprehension.
 Boone chiefly is a market for cream, poultry. eggs and grain" A reliable source reported that the strike has affected the poultry dressing houses and the grain ele- vators but has left the cream and egg merchants with almost normal supplies.
 The success of the holiday here, as elsewhere in the state, was con- troversial.
 Primrose estimated that per cent of the farmers in Boone coun- ty are upholding the strike move ment. This contrasts with esti- mates of as high as 75 per cent made by Sturtz.
 Blockade Kept Up
 Omaha, Neb, Aug 23--(UP)-- Two hundred farmers, led by a white haired man who said he was willing to go to the penitentiary for five years if, necessary. block aded highways into Omaha and Council Bluffs, Ia, to-day.
 They hoped to force produce prices upward by keeping farm products out of the cities.
 James Hawn of Woodbine, Ia, became leader of the picketing forces after Clifton Slavery re-' signed. Sheriff c. F. Gross of Har- rison county, Iowa, warned Savery that the picket leader would be held personally responsible for the acts of his men,.
 Gross said the leader might go to prison for five years if any at- tempt was made to halt by force any farmer who tried to drive a loaded truck past the patrols. "That is too much responsibility for one man." said Savery, and re- signed.
 Hawn volunteered to take ck9rSe.
 I'm past 50 years of age and have farmed all my life" he told the strikers. "All I've got left is my tongue. This is the only wea- ron we have to raise comm odity prices.
 "I'm willing to go to the peniten- tiary for five years to help"
 The strikers were told they could wave at truck drivers and try to