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    "ocrText": "E\nAND\n.\nBERVICE\n- 13 -\nfarmer committemen and under that system they have developed\nan economic democracy which no other branch of American in-\ndustry can equal. They are now organized to do what they\nwere advised to do back in 1921 -- they are able to help\nthemselves by nationwide cooperation in any farm program that\npromises to mako agriculture sounder and more prosperous.\nThe farmer committemen administer the price support\nprogram in the countries and communities. They take responsi- -\nbility for the local operation of the Agricultural Conservation\nProgram.\nThey \"spark plug\" the production goals drive, the\nfarm scrap campaign and a great many other endeavors on the\nfarm front.\n1952\nIn 1952 farmers have been asked to strive toward\ntoals\nproduction goals that would raise total farm output to nearly\n50 percent above the 1935-39 average. In the battle to meet\nthese goals, individual farmers will have available the in-\nformation and guidance of their own neighbors whom they have\nelected to serve as county and community committeemen.\nFree\nFarmers have the final voice in whether or not market-\nElections\ning quotas shall be applied to any given commodity -- it takes\non Quotas\nan affirmative vote of two-thirds of the producers voting in a\nfree election to put a quota \"on\".\nThrough their farmer-elected representatives, farm\npeople have a direct pipeline to the seat of government in\nWashington, and suggestions, criticisms, and approval of pro-\nspective programs and policies are continually flowing back and\nforth.\nDemocratic\nThis practical application of the democratic principle\nPrice\nto the operation of farm programs has been one of the prime fac-\nSupports\ntors in the agricultural progress of the past 20 years. Through\ndemocratic action farmers are able to adjust production more\nclosely to demand. Through such action they are able to operate\nprograms of price support which stabilize production and safeguard\nsupplies for the consuming public. This type of price support\nprevented a probable collapse in wheat prices early in 1948. It'\nhas enabled farmers to produce the abundance of recent years\nwithout fear that a sudden slackening in demond might plunge\nprices into a bottomless pit.\n\"Losses\" and\nIn the first 18 years of operation price support programs\nGains\ncost about one billion dollars in \"losses\" by the Commodity Credit\nCorporation. But they saved tens of billions of dollars in purchas-\ning power for the farm segment of the Nation; purchasing power which"
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