VISTAS IN SILK AND RAMIE 



prices and high wages benefit only small groups at the 

 expense of all others. The same scarcity formula inspires 

 trade unionism, bureaucracy, and the cartels, today's 

 great triple threat against the true and lasting prosperity 

 based upon an economy of abundance. 



Ninety-nine farmers out of a hundred still believe 

 in the scarcity formula: short crops, long prices. That is 

 why the chemurgic idea has had to date such a pitiful 

 record of slow acceptance. By the same token, that is 

 why the gradual emergence of the chemurgic idea as a 

 recognized principle in our farm program will be such 

 a revolutionary force in American agriculture. When a 

 man bites a dog, that is real news; so when the cotton 

 growers of West Texas instinctively talk about man- 

 hours to the acre, not bales to the acre, that is a revolu- 

 tion in agricultural thinking. 



Here we have farming in terms of modern industry 

 with the emphasis upon costs, where it belongs in an 

 economy of abundance. Only when the manufacturer 

 and the farmer talk a common language volume output 

 at low prices, but larger profits can the producer and 

 processor of chemurgic raw materials understand each 

 other's problems. 



Such a mutual understanding would mean much to 

 the South, which is still the great agricultural section 

 of the country, but where the great industrial expansion 

 of the near future will take place. In the South the 

 chemurgic movement is stirring strongly, and every 



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