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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
Bi Ret>. Burr P. Harruon
Washington—In reporting on agricultural matters up for consideration in Washington, I have taken occasion, from time to time to point that our national farm policies have been so oriented as to channel their major tangible benefits into certain "singlecrop” areas of the nation.
It has been no secret to farmers of this part of Virginia that federal price support payments are a minor factor in the agricultural economy j here. The soil bank experiment, likewise, lias proved no bonanza to our region. Through the tears, a combination of single crop sections has managed to call the shots on farm programs, bofh in Congress an 1 « at the Department of Agriculture and the bag money, provided bv all the taxpayers of the United Stares including, of course, the farmer. has flowed into these sections where huge fanning corporations
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