Agriculture

They promise to cut the farmer loose, and take his chances in the marketplace.

We must have things to eat and things to wear and they must come from but one place and that is the land.

It has taken us a long time to discover that agriculture is the fundamental basis on which we all live.

It took us a long time to discover that farm credit and farm management are the two most important things of the foundation of a republic.

I want to congratulate you on what you have been doing and congratulate you on improving the life and ways of the farm.

We must continue to improve the production of food, for food is the fundamental basis of a high standard of living.

That is the mechanized farm age that has reduced the drudgery, and reduced the number of men that are necessary to produce the food that keeps this country and the world going.

We have had some very able Secretaries of Agriculture who have been vitally interested in what you are doing.

Our various agricultural programs have been designed to achieve these principal objectives:Sound and lasting economic well-being for our farm population.

Every American farmer can bear witness to the benefits which have accrued from your administration.

It is also due to your foresight that agriculture has not gone into the decline which was so disastrous to American farmers after World War I.

Take, for example, the agricultural family.

And I think that if the farmer's wife all the way through the country had it explained to her, about the cost of living to her, I think the farmer's wife would appreciate it, and understand it, and go along with the effort to stabilize the…

I feel that most farmers realize that when farm prices go much above parity, danger is ahead.

The objective, of course, of the Administration on that was after very, very many years to bring the price of agricultural commodities up to parity.

It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.

They also discussed methods further to coordinate all economic agencies engaged in assistance to business, employment, and agriculture.

I think you all understand that the sole purpose of the campaign is restoration of employment and aid to agriculture.