AGRICULTURE: How High?

Into Atlantic City, NJ.'s Convention Hall last week trooped 5,000 ruddy, weatherbeaten farmers. As delegates to the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, they had come to listen, vote, sing such old favorites as A Bicycle Built for Two, and take in the sights. Many of them also had a shock. At home they had never seen such prices as they paid for meals in Atlantic City's restaurants.

But the high food prices were not likely to decline so long as the high support prices for farm products were continued. In...

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