Crimean War, effect on world prices, 

 158 



Crops: allocation restricts produc- 

 tion, 66; harvested acreage, 52; 

 importance of, 56; relation size, 

 price, income, 174-6; restrictions, 

 56, 59; soil-conserving, 57, 58 



Currency revaluation, 157 



Curtiss, W. M., vi 



Czars: conflict among, 226; job too 

 big for one, 228 



Davis, Chester : administrative 

 changes, 229; centralized author- 

 ity, 233; divided authority, 225 



Death-rate, not related to rising 

 prices, 170 



Deflation: and parity, 178; preven- 

 tion of, by price and ticket ration- 

 ing, 190-2; world-wide, cause of 

 low prices, 153 



Demand: if or commodities and 

 money, 156; registered by price, 

 236 



Denmark, liquidation, hogs and cat- 

 tle, 95, 101 



Devaluation of dollar, raises prices, 

 173 



Diet, see Consumption 



Distribution, see Middleman 



Draft, married men and agriculture, 

 40 



Drought (1934), effect on: crop acre- 

 age, 61 ; food production, 60 ; num- 

 bers livestock, 75, 94; yields, 61 



Droughts, and food prices, 162 



Economy, see Regimented economy 

 Efficiency : of farm worker, rises, 28 ; 



of wheat farmer, 43 

 Egypt, 8, 107 

 Emergency Tariff of 1921, result of 



deflation, 172 



Energy food, no shortage, 12 

 England : blockades Germany, 4 ; ef- 

 fect of controls, 183 ; hoarding food 

 (1921), 23; insurance rate, 24; 

 liquidation, hogs and poultry, 95, 

 101; price control, 202; subsidies, 

 202 



English Corn Laws, 158 



Equality : not equity, 192 ; regiment- 

 ers' battlecry, 193 



Ever normal granary: Farm Board 

 compared, 107, 173; Joseph and 

 weevils, 107; livestock, 100; New 

 Deal liquidates one, uses another, 

 107, 108 



Exports: changes (1882-1940), 153; 

 cottonseed, decline, 105; decline, 

 153 ; equalize food supplies, 98, 103, 

 104; loss, not cause of low prices, 

 152 ; pork, decline, 105 ; wheat, de- 

 cline, 105 



F*ads: from fact and fancy, 120; 

 make progress, 122 



Famine, where little livestock, 102 



Farm Board: accumulated wheat, 

 107; ineffective, 172 



Farmerettes, 39, 40 



Farmers : only high-price-minded 

 group, 236; resourceful, 41; want 

 more income and low prices, 235 



Farm labor, see Labor 



Farm land, see Land 



Farm machinery, see Machinery 



Farm population, see Population 



Farm prices, see Prices 



Fats, stocks and consumption, 99 



Feed : difficult to ration, 83 ; low ceil- 

 ing prices stimulate consumption, 

 80, 84; price rations equitably, 93, 

 96; scraping bins, 89 



Fertilizers: consumption encouraged 

 by ceilings, 48; diverted, food to 

 war, 3; nitrogen short, 47; soils 

 and, 48 ; vs. explosives, 48 



Filburn, R. C., 49-cent wheat pen- 

 alty, 203 



Fisher, Irving, 155 



Foreign exchange, black markets, 208 



Foreign trade, see Exports 



Forrest, Lieutenant-General, 238 



France, food scarce, 4 



Franco-German War, effect on world 

 prices, 158 



Fuel Administrator, centralized con- 

 trol, 232 



