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proof of discrimination against the small farmer,” he said. He gave these examples:
‘‘After a futile appeal to the President, it was necessary to amend the basic Selective Service Act in an effort to stop draft discriminations against farmers.
‘‘Of the money appropriated to channel surplus farm Commodities into the school lunch and similar lunch and similar programs, subprograms, substantial amounts have been made available to ease the pain of the owners of large cranberry' bogs, but the Washington bureaucrats refused any money for Virginia turkeys.
“When the farmer asked a little relief from the paper work incident to social security coverage of seasonal farm and orchard workers, he ran up against the bitter opposition of his government in the shape of the Social Security Administration.
“When the apple farmer asked his government to please stop confusing and disrupting the apple market by trying to predict future apple prices, he found the Department of Agriculture, which is supposed to have his interests at heart, fighting him tooth and nail. When Congress passes remedial legislation, the bureaucrats tell the President to veto it, and he does.”
“The farmer hears promises of action to dispose of farm products abroad, but the performance doesn’t match the promises, although laws have been enacted by the Congress to accelerate the process,” Mr. Harrison told%the Rappahannock group, "and the farmer sees surpluses piling higher in the government’s account—there was $1 billion more in agricultural
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