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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
By Rep. Burr P. Harrison
The income of farm operators in the United States has dropped nearly $4,000,000,000 during a three-year period in which wages and salaries have increased $25,000,000,000* the income of busiBess and professional persons has increased $1,600,000,000, and corporate profits after taxes have advanced $5,500,000,000.
This is a serious trend for farmers, but is aso a dangerous state oij affairs for the national economy as a whole. When farm income slides so does the purchasing power of farm families, on which our industry depends in substantial measure for its markets. Ahy set of economic circumstances which operates to place agriculture at a special disadvantage in relationship to other groups sharing in the proceeds of the national energy deserves the most Careful* nonpolitical appraisal.
Unfortunately the financial problems of agriculture continue to be approached largely on a political basis. Particular attention is directed to areas in which the agricultural activity is concentrated in a single price-supported crop. There are frequent reference to the small family farmer as "the backbone of our agriculture”, but he usually finds little tangible assistance in the farm legislation passed by Congress, or administrative edicts of the Secretary of Agriculture.
So it is that the average farmer in the 7th District of Virginia can find small cause for rejoicing in the farm bill sent to the President last week. ,
The bill carrjed a price tag of more than $3,000,000,000 a year, F^= — -5
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