The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-03
One to Four Dollars
Allowed q Month
Per Head
n a Farmer Correspondent

ARCADIA, Nebr.-As I sit here
today, summing up the accomplish
ments of the New Deal, I wonder
how much longer the farmers are
going to tolerate such conditions.
7 have Travelled over a consider
able part Of Nebraska in the past
three weeks, and have carefully OBJ
served the conditions Of the mass Of
the people.
In most of this State there is no
feed. only what is trucksd or shipped
in. I have seen farmers hauling
bailed hay and corn fodder on
wagon boxes, with teams so poor
that they could hardly pull the
wagon with only five or six bales
Of hay or fodder. Cattle and horses
are getting so thin that unless
something is done Immediately, the
animals will die. Farmers are be-
ginning to despair.
The A.A.A. belly robbers are just
as Impractical as the F.ER.A. belly
robbers. Farmers are allowed from
81 to 81 per month per head for
feed for their stock. This means
less than one pound of corn per
hog per day. at the present prices
Of corn. It means seven pounds of
dry corn fodder without the corn
on it per COW per day. 1t means
Il pounds Of hay per day per horse
without any grain ration.
This is short for hogs on the
average, four pounds Of corn per
day. for COWS it is short % pounds
OF hay where grain ration is fed.
Horses are short 20 pounds Of hay
where grain ration is fed. The
grain ration for cows would be about
six to eight pounds if cows were
expected to give any flow Of milk
at all. Horses would require at
least IS pounds Of grain per day
If expected to be in shape for work
next summer.
This means that the A.A.A. stom-
ach robbers are telling the farmers
that their horses should be able to
live on one-fourth of their regular
rations required. Bessie should live
on almost one-fourth of her regu-
lar requirements, and the porker
must laugh and grow fat on less
than one-fourth of its regular re-
quirements-and one of these days,
the Press will be telling the starv-
ing millions that the A.A.A. admin
istrators did everything in their
power to help the poor ignorant
farmers save their stock but that
the fool farmers all turned red"
and instead of teaching their ami
mails that they should get fat on
such rations, they deliberately re-
fused to use any psychology and so
most Of the animals died, or else 1t
was due to the drought not being
severe enough.
One farmer told me yesterday
that he had been to see the relief
administrator about getting more
feed for his animals and was told
that he could use his corn and hog
check to buy feed. When he told
the administrator that he had
family Of seven and that they had
waited until now for shoes and I'M
derwear and other necessary clothes,
as they had wore all the shoes and
underwear out, the administrator
replied. We'll if that is the way
you are going to manage, your stock
will have to suffer"
But-there is going to be thou
sands Of babies suffering. to say
nothing of the millions of adults,
all because grafters and politicians
are not using any respect for the
furtherance Of this nation.
History tells us that Nero fiddled
while Rome burned. Hearst's papers
are yelling about the reds" and
Communists taking this country
while the grafters and politicians
are allowing this nation to suffer
the most severe losses Of one of its
most basic industries ever recorded
In history.