FARMERS: Penalty v. Bribe

Last year the Government paid cotton farmers some $100,000,000 for plowing under about one quarter of their crop, only to find that the harvest of 13,177,000 bales was even larger than the year before. Good growing weather and subterfuges on the part of the farmers were jointly responsible.

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