U.S.A. FARMERS
SHORT CROPS —LARGE INCOMES. [BY CABLE—PBESS ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] WASHINGTON, December 19. The Crop Reporting Board announces that the shortest supplies of farm products of any recent year, combined with the highest average prices since 1929, caused the gross farm income for 1929 to reach 9,530,000,000 dollars, the highest total for six years. Field crops yielded 3,870,000,000 dollars, and live stock 5,180,000,000 dollars. Farmers received an additional 480,000,000 dollars payment for cooperating with the Government in the soil conservation programme. It ih explained that because of the drought wheat production is 27 per cent, below the average for the period 1938-1932.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 5
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