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<br />DON C. McCAIN <br /> <br />give six bundles of hay and three bags of dates. Who will go for less?" <br /> <br />Behold, all stood forth. One would go for six bundles of hay and two bags of dates, another <br />for three bundles and one bag. One especially long-eared donkey agreed to go for one bundle of hay. <br /> <br />Whereupon the prophet replied: "Thou art a disgrace to the herd and an Ass. Thou cannot live <br />for three days on one bundle of hay, much less undertake the journey and profit thereby." <br /> <br />"True", replied the Ass, hanging his long ears in shame, "But I wanted to get the sale." <br /> <br />We in Agriculture have too long played the part of the long-eared donkey and our ranks have <br />been thinned and they will continue to dwindle until we no longer take our farm products to market <br />and ask, "WBA T WILL YOU GIVE ME?" <br /> <br />2. An Announced National purchasing strike, I say this even though I double in my other 40 <br />hour work week as a fertilizer salesman. <br /> <br />The farmer is the nation's biggest user of steel, the major creator of transportation needs and <br />the largest user of farm machines, trucks and so forth. <br /> <br />Ford tractors went up $300 per tnlctor in Yuma after labor got its last inflationary wage <br />raise and now steel has been raised five dollars per ton. Don't buy tractors, trucks, combines, pickups, <br />swathers, and other unneeded supplies. Repair them, trade work, rent instead of buy, use your avail- <br />able custom operators. <br /> <br />The use of the farmer as the anti-inflationary segment of the nation's economy would of nec- <br />essity be reversed. <br /> <br />3. A National Agricultural Public Relations Board by formed or joined as Farm Bureau, to <br />speed up agricultures taking its proper place in the Nation's economy. <br /> <br />4. Vote in 1968 - - study the issues and take General Bullmoose's attitude to the polls. What <br />is good for Agriculture is good for the nation. <br /> <br />Exert the power of the purse on those who are allied to Agriculture - - convince them that <br />they need a stable prosperous agriculture and to that end they should exercise their votes. <br /> <br />And now I feel like the little boy who sat on the cake of ice - - my tale is told. <br /> <br />-25- <br /> <br />