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more sympathetic. While the opposition from 

 certain quarters grew more determined the sup- 

 port of the rank and file of farmers had been 

 clinched by the contact made at the Agricul- 

 tural Conference and by the fact that it was 

 disclosed that the farmers' program and the 

 program of the Agricultural Bloc were identi- 

 cal. It could not well have been otherwise be- 

 cause of the primary fact that the Bloc program 

 was based upon a study of farm conditions and 

 intimate conference with faim leaders. 



