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SS: Extracts from on address by Claude R. 
Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture, at 
Farn and Home Week, Purdue University, 
Lafayette, Indiana, January 15, l?Ul 
"... I ask you to think hard end straight with mo on certain 
:s of cur farm problem here this afternoon and I hope our dis- 
be with an open mind. 
"I believe that if I were to ask a group of farmers or agri- 
rural leaders or economists (including the Government variety), 
t is th r Bon we arc exporting so little wheat or corn or 
cotton or Lard this year? 1 , I would receive a reply in unison: 'The 
rl». . . . Eut it would be in error if we say that Torld : *ar No. 2 
is the- sole cause for cur almost complete loss of exports and that 
r ends we- will have what we think of as 'normal' ex- 
's. . . . 
'The facts arc that the trend of /jnerinon farm exports has 
beor. • — am rd since the turn of the century. Now I don't mean to 
say - the derline hoc been constant. You know better than that. 
It : - ■ - by fits and starts. Exports shot up during the 7/orld 
tat they hi d been declining before that for 15 years. Ex- 
ports fell off li a stone dropped from a tower after the Smoot 
ley " -- " .rt of 1930. 
b r _r the - - ng to remember: the long-time 
trend Ls jot - — is xlowi . . . , tct of the.jnatrter is that 
