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culture in its report on the value of farm 

 products, crops and live stock for the last three 

 years gives the following figures: 



1919 1920 1921 



Value of crops. $15,422,000,000 $10,909,000,000 $7,027,000,000 

 Value of animal 



products 8,360,000,000 7,354,000,000 5,338,000,000 



Total... $23,782,000,000 $18,263,000,000 $12,365,000,000 



Such a report was not apparent to the public 

 at the time the depression was going on, but 

 farmers knew that it was real and the wonder 

 is that they were able to stand fast during this 

 experience and emerge with a determination to 

 renew planting for another year and grow 

 another crop so essential to the nation's busi- 

 ness. 



The story of the tens of thousands of farmers 

 who did not escape bankruptcy will never be 

 known to the city consumers who have dined 

 comfortably on the products of the labors of 

 these farmers. Scattered through the far 

 reaches of our country, one by one, these farm- 

 ers saw their savings of a lifetime disappear 

 and they could only pack their small stock of 

 tools and move on to another piece of land to 

 begin their struggle over again. Those of U3 

 who represented purely agricultural states in 



