FARMERS: Bait & Boom

Bedeviled by a blight of interdictions and animadversions against AAA by processors, judges and Senators, nervous AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis has kept his tongue & temper fairly well under control. Last week his attention was called to the following advertisement in the Joplin, Mo. Globe:

Dandy way to make money; buy this

13 acres for hog raising. Sign up with

the government to not raise, say, 500

hogs. It will pay you $1,000. That will

pay for the acres and have some left.

"It's preposterous!" spluttered Administrator Davis. "It's at least...

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