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of us will simply r , 'F.oduce product ion' . Again, I wish it were 
as simple to - I -t as it is to say it. 
the case of at least onu commodity — cotton — -it soor.s 
■ turn to the action described by our term 'agricul- 
tural ad. ' — not r.orcly to tho idea of reduction. I know a 
lot of you p •" who have been in county planning work have come to 
conclusion that I have reached and which I have stated to Con- 
gressional Committees: 'It is not difficult to see what wo should do 
our land to preserve its fertility, stop erosion, and create 
tetter sized and better organized faming units, economically speak- 
ing. The trouble ccr.os when we try to place the people who would bo 
driven eff the land by such changes in land utilization.' 
"::e first thing we must roalise is that we can't reduce the 
•t-.o live on cotton farms, or wheat fans, or tobacco 
f arms , in the sane proportion that we reduce the acreages of these 
The fact of the matter is that agricultural population 
-use our surplus fam people wouldn't find a 
pi- Industries. It is my hope that there can be greatly in- 
stria] :n in areas where we have the problem of too 
and too low inco:res because of lost markets. . . . 
a citizens, I ar sponsibility to help 
the underprivileged in agriculture. Requiring than to ruise less cotton 
