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Last week corn had a whirl. Spot corn touched...
...whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power by artificially raising the prices of cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, rice, hogs, sheep, cattle and dairy products to pre-War parity with industry.* Nothing short of the broadest and most flexible authority, he had testified, would suffice to solve the farm problem. After such a sweeping grant it was up to Congress and the country to trust...
...necessary line of attack. I don't contemplate such reduction of acreage as meaning that we permanently forsake our foreign markets. . . . In reducing the production of hogs, the best method may be for the Government to pay the hog producer rent on a specified amount of his corn land, provided he retires that acreage from corn production and also restricts the tonnage of hogs marketed." The farmer who already has his 1933 acreage planted and fertilized will not be able to avail himself of the benefits of Prong...
...acre farm in Polk County, Iowa, Secretary Wallace has given much time and thought to developing prize seed corn. As a boy he was impressed by the fact that judges always seemed to pick the best looking ear rather than the one that promised the biggest yield. By crossbreeding he perfected a seed corn which now sells far & wide throughout Iowa. Wrote he: "Show corn ideals deal too much with beauty and too little with utility. Whether corn has smooth or rough kernels means very little more than the presence or absence of a dimple on a pretty girl...
Because his Farmer office was always littered with samples of seed corn, that publication's new Des Moines building was made mouse-proof throughout. On its roof Henry Wallace plays badminton with Managing Editor Donald Murphy. In Washington he walks three miles to his office before 8 a. m., lunches at his desk, goes home after 6 p. m. Summers he climbs Pikes Peak in a bee line...