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...Farmers are guaranteed for 1936 not less than 5? a Ib. for cotton they do not raise. 35? a bu. for corn they do not raise, $1.25 for each hog they do raise. Every hog over their quota will cost them...
...days after Mrs. Newkirk's letter went out, John B. Hutson, AAA's potato director, announced that the automatic tax-free potato quota would not be 5 bu. (as fixed by law) but 50 bu. (as fixed by executive discretion). Republican ladies could still infringe the law by selling a few bushels of potatoes without applying for a quota but to do a good job of law defiance they would have to tear up considerable shrubbery around their homes and do some sizeable potato landscaping...
...shouted: ''How are the cripples this morning?" and drove on roaring at his own joke. Also he took the first good afternoon to drive out to his 2,500-acre farm where he learned from Manager Otis Moore that the corn crop had been 1,300 bu., the best ever, inspected a number of new sheds built of lumber grown on the place and sawed at his own mill...
...Canada affect 53 items. Chief are: one-third to one-half off the duty on cattle, a reduction limited however to 155,799 heavy beef cattle, 51,933 calves less than 175 lb. each, and 20,000 dairy cattle per year; a 20% to 40% cut for 750,000 bu. a year of seed potatoes; 43% off for 1,500,000 gal. a year of cream; half off on halibut; $2.50 instead of $5 per gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber with an annual limitation to 250,000,000 board feet...
Other income will be from 500 bu. of sweet potatoes, from lumber cut by a sawmill installed a few months ago. "I begged the President to let me plant a little cotton," said the employe of the man who has cut the South's cotton production 20%, "but he just gave me that big broad smile and shook his head. So of course I didn't raise any cotton...