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Farmers.* Committee
Recommends Economy - -
”A committee of fanners have set up a group of proposals to be presented at a county-wide meeting September 21 for approval by the rest; of the farmers of the /. county. r The committee formulating the set of resolutions Is the one elected at the first county-wide meeting held in regard to the no*w- ; much-discussed Family Farm Policy Review,!
Using words that most people thought had become obsolete, so far as the government wat concerned, the farmers called for economy, curtailment of expenditures, and abolishment of any farm-agricultural policy that can be eliminated. The farmers even agreed to begin and offer themselves as a group of volufiteer taxpayers, to make sacrifices in order that the national debt may be reduced.
The full content of the committee's report follows:
WHEREAS, the farmers of Rappahannock County, Virginia, have held several meetings in connection with the Family Farm Policy Review sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture; and ' -
WHEREAS, at the last countywide meeting t,wo farmers of each Magisterial District were elected as a committee to bring to another county-wide meeting recom-e mendations concerning this re“ ~view; and ■
WHEREAS, the report of the Committee has been presented to the meeting; and
WHEREAS, the farmers of Rappahannock County feel that the idea of having "the fanners of the United States give their views is good, the method used in conducting this survey was not in accordance twith democratic process, in that it was conducted , principally by paid federal employees; and
WHEREAS, it appears that the recommendations contained ifi the review in every instance call for increased expenditure,'increased personnel and broadening of powers of the U. S. D. A.; and T| WHEREAS, we feel that the! concentration of further authority . over agriculture in the U. S. D. A.
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