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gima, receive more than nan tneir farm income from commodites receiving no direct supports. A slightly different set of 29 states—also including Virginia —receive 50 per cent or more of farm income from meaf animals, dairy product* and poultry products. These farmers have to buy price-supported feeds.
The farmer from a commercial cotton, corn or wheat state need not be condemned for fighting as hard as he can for high rigid supports, if he thinks they will benefit him, but lack of organization has hurt farmers who do not depend on the “basics”. I have noticed, for example, that our Virginia fruit and poultry farmers are inf touch with their representatives in Congress, but seem only loosely-tied to other fruit and poultry farmers across the nation
Poultry men, citrus growers, other fruit farmers, livestock men, vegetable growers, have m^ny organizations' in various parts pf the country, but they are heard under the Capitol dome as a concert of murmurs, in contrast to the strong and self -confident voices of the
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