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The Arkansas state penitentiary is really two massive prison farms, the Cummins farm near Grady and the Tucker farm, several miles to the north. The whipping of inmates has been a way of life at both farms for as long as anyone can remember. Inmates have been whipped for "not digging a ditch fast enough"; for "missing some cucumbers" or "overlooking okra" while picking them in the fields; and for complaining about being whipped. Both the Cummins and Tucker farms are unhappy institutions.

The article discusses the problems of the New York dairy farmer. The farmer's objective is to sell his product at a price which will cover his costs, yield a living for his family, and enable him to stay in business. As production costs increases, the farmer turns to the fluid price as promising an appropriate source of increased revenue. The price of milk to the consumer is in large measure a marketing problem which is not to be solved by asking the producer to accept less than farm cost. The author looks at how dairy farmers should be treated fairly for implementing a higher cost of dairy to cover the rising cost of raw materials. Several pieces of legislation concerning dairy farms are included.

Focuses on profound changes that Mexico has undergone during the past three years. Mention of the agrarian policy proposed by Mexico's President Lazaro Cárdenas; Discussion on the distribution of the land to landless peasants; Foresight of a program of far reaching economic and social development. Transformation of Mexico into a country of efficient, highly productive and cooperative farms. Struggle against foreign capitalists; Focus on Mexico's national and industrial revolution; Threat to the economic position of Mexico; Transformation of Mexican army into a people's army; Defense by Mexican people against their own reactionaries allied with foreign fascism.

Focuses on U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman's farm policy. Comparison of the country farm production with that of France; Reason behind Freeman's efforts to dissuade the Economic Community from building higher barriers against the flow of American agricultural products; Emphasis on the Trade Expansion Act by Freeman; Effort by Freeman to deliver the maximum number of farm votes to his administration.

The last few months have seen the unfurling of storm signals again in the cotton belt of the U.S.. In somewhat worried headlines the financial pages note the ominous tone of government and private crop estimates which indicate that the Paradox of Plenty, 1937 style, is about to arrive in the shape of another bumper cotton crop. Forty Senators have signed a plea to the President to call a special farm session of Congress this fall, and a resolution was passed before adjournment which guaranteed that farm legislation would receive first consideration at the opening of the regular session in January.

Focuses on the futility of the Farm Act proposed by U.S. President Herbert Hoover's administration. Report that the whole experience in the past two years in farm relief threatens to enforce once more a placid acceptance of the old maxim that the government can do nothing for the farmer; Intention and purpose of the Farm Act to place agriculture upon an economic equality with industry; Factors that aggravated the conditions of farmers; Provisions of the Farm Act; Report that recent statements emanating from the Farm Board indicate that it feels that cooperative organization of farmers will go far toward rationalizing agricultural production.

On the face of things this much seemed clear: either North Dakota, completely in the control of the organization Nonpartisan League, was headed straight for destruction, or else it was the one State in the Union in which the millennium had actually begun to arrive. Nothing that was read or heard suggested the possibility of a middle ground. Most of the farms of North Dakota are mortgaged, the amount of such mortgages aggregating more than $27,000,000. In order to pay the interest, which usually comes due in the fall, the farmers have been compelled to sell their wheat or live stock in the fall, soon after the harvest, when prices were lowest.

Focuses on the conference on "Economic Policy for American Agriculture," held under the auspices of the University of Chicago, Illinois. Report that with aim of providing a solution on the farm crisis, the conference was attended by persons in key positions in government service, state agricultural colleges or the like; Debate on the role of the experts in formulating a policy; Conclusions of the conference; Proposal for an agricultural policy which links the necessary agencies to implement it; Need for a desirable collaboration between the experts and the practical men which results in unanimous approval; Information on the long range measures of planning machinery by M.J. Tolley, author of the plan; View that there is a need for collective engineering to serve agriculture and any other element in the national economic life.

This section offers news briefs related to U.S. politics and regulations as of June 1929. The U.S. Congress has proposed amendments to the 1922 Fordney-McComber tariff law that covers wheat, Cuban raw and refined sugar, raw wool and other commodities. Issues surrounding the old equalization fee, also known as the "debenture proposal" in light of the Farm Relief bill are discussed.

This article focuses on the political issues in the U.S. Politician Al Smith will be the Democratic candidate for president, after the California primary vote there can be no further doubt on that point. The only remaining question is whether the Houston Convention will go off whooping for Al on the first ballot or will give the delegates from Dry and anti-Catholic sections an opportunity to cast at least one ballot against the governor of New York. For the third time, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill, this time by a vote of 204 to 121. It again contains the equalization fee which has been denounced by so many politicians and economists as an extremely dangerous feature, entirely unsound economically.

The article focuses on socioeconomical issues in the U.S. Andrew William Mellon's, U.S. secretary of the treasury, letter in opposition to the Haugen farm-relief bill aims at subsidizing the farmer at the expense of the rest of the community by raising the price of food. Growing cities are facing new and serious problems of milk supply. While city governments are well equipped with health departments, there is no assurance that the inspection service which was adequate five years ago will guarantee clean, rich milk today. Fifteen years ago the milk supply of New York City was totally unstandardized. No consumer was able to tell whether he was buying milk, water or sewage. A body of public-spirited citizens got together, outlined standards and succeeded in enforcing them. New York came to have the cleanest milk of any large city in the world.

The article focuses on several political and economic issues around the world. Calvin Coolidge, the U.S. President, has opposed the compulsory military training in the schools and colleges. The article also reports about defeat of the German referendum on confiscating the property of former royal families. The newspaper, "The New York Times," seeks to prove by selected quotations that the Soviet Union's prosperity varies inversely with the degree of government interference. Andrew William Mellon, the U.S. secretary of the treasury, has opposed farm-relief bill.

In the last five years more than a million farmers have become bankrupt, and the value of farm property has decreased by 20 or 25 billions of dollars. The value of other property in the United States has increased during the same time. Occasionally figures are published showing an increase in the return on the farms as compared with the preceding year. Such increases, however, have not been enough to cover the deficit in agriculture. Farmers have more and more gone into debt each year. The causes of this are permanent. The condition itself is permanent.

Focuses on miserable conditions of farmers in the U.S. Report that Congress pass the legislation on price ceilings; Demand of action on the manpower crisis; Revision of parity; Effect of manpower crisis on the production of food; Concern of farmers over advance of inflation; Need of anti-inflation program for farmers; Comments on the farm laws; Information on the underestimation of farm organization.

Presents several letters to the editor, referencing articles published in previous issues. "Politics is for Other People," published in the October 03 issue; "Can Kennedy Set Them Afire," published in the September 26 issue; Views of presidential candidate John F. Kennedy on the separation of church and state; Proposal of Vice President Richard Nixon that surplus grains be converted into high protein foods; Benefits of the farm proposal of U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, to the agriculture industry; Effect of the proposal on the price of grains.

In this report the author get a clear picture of the ways in which states have used their police powers to stifle "foreign" competition. Because of the Constitution, open protection is seldom feasible, and it has thus been necessary to resort to disguise. Ironically enough, for the consumer is the most immediate victim of these devices, the nominal purposes of most restrictive legislation is to guard his interest. Everyone agrees that it is the duty of state and municipal authorities to make certain that the milk supply is clean and healthy. But it is small comfort to a poor mother to know that the quality of milk is first rate if, under pretense of securing that end, measures have been taken which make the price prohibitive. Numerous cities and states permit the sale of milk within their areas only when it comes from farms which they have inspected and licensed.

The article focuses on the current state of the U.S. agriculture industry and also mentions about the Agricultural Act or the Aiken Law. It mentions that presently there is a steep rise in farm productivity of cotton, wheat and tobacco and the country's government has to find a market for them. It further mentions that under the Aiken law, the parity for basic farm crops will range between 60 percent to 90 percent and the law also aims at directing farming towards livestock economy.

The article reports that the Veterans Administration has already set up regulations that covers all loans made to veterans under the G.I. Bill of Rights for buying farms or farm equipment as well as improving farms that they already own.

The article focuses on a law in North Dakota in which corporate ownership of farm land is banned in 1943.

The article reports on the ratification of a new decree that makes fundamental changes in the basis for collections of grain, vegetables and industrial raw materials from collective farms by Premier Vyachesiaff Molotoff and Joseph Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee, in 1940.

The article reports on the reactions of several agricultural and business groups on the new farm bills in the U.S. A group of U.S. Chamber of Commerce officials and farm leaders call for the elimination of production controls along with a bonus for farmers. The National Industrial Conference Board claims that crop limitation doesn't yield higher farm income.

Discusses the special session of the U.S. Congress about tariff and farm relief. Spending associated with the election of President Herbert Hoover; Tariff revision for the benefit of the farmers; Legislative proposal of the Ways and Means Committee.

Relates the conversation between Homer Graves and Elmer Durkin about the administration of President Herbert Hoover in the U.S. Peace and harmony within the Republican Party; Senate approval of the tariff and farm bill; Opinion about law enforcement and poverty alleviation.

Comments on various political issues in the U.S. Emotional disturbances created by the debenture plan driven by the Democratic-insurgent coalition into the administration farm-relief bill; Vote of Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson in favor of universal military training in time of peace; Attitude of Secretary of War James W. Good in conformance with the War Department policy; Policy of the administration toward pending legislation.

The Royal Commission on the Irish Land Laws, presided over by Lord Cowper, has presented its report to the Parliament. The fall in prices during the last two, as compared with the preceding four, years is stated to be 18.5 percent. This, in conjunction with unfavorable seasons, has so impaired the farmers' ability to pay rent that an immediate revision of judicial rents is recommended. The Commission proposes the following changes in the law as regards rents: first, the revision of rents every five years, instead of fifteen; the revision to be effected according to the general average of prices which have ruled during the five years preceding the revision, as compared with the average of prices for the five years before them. Second, the admission of leaseholders to the land courts to have fair rents fixed. And third, the admission of town park occupiers, exclusive of those who hold less than five acres, of pasture farms up to pound 100 value.

The article presents information about the "Great-Grandfather Bill." Bill writes from Finney Farm, Croton on Hudson, New York on note paper which bears a ravishing picture in four colors at the top of the page. The picture is of one of those farms one dreams about not the modern sort, hard up, harried and covered with mortgages. Finney Farm so the picture suggests, anyhow is fat, fruitful, and prosperous. There is a noble two story house, with red chimneys and blue windows, set in front of a green and black background of trees.

Presents several letters to the editor on articles published in the previous issues of the periodical "The Nation." Wisconsin farmers will declare an embargo on all farm produce beginning May 13 unless adequate legislative relief is secured before then, according to Walter M. Singler, the leader of the Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool. This is an appeal for books, from the heart of the anthracite region. This town of 17,000 people has no library of any sort. On Wednesday evening, April 12, Edwin C. Hill spoke in his broadcast entitled "The Human Side of the News," over the Columbia network. This was the second broadcast which Mr. Hill devoted to a discussion of Russia and the trial of the six Englishmen.

The article looks at the state of labor relations in the U.S. as of April 16, 1955. The merger between American Federal Labor and Congress of International Organizations may reportedly be formalized by Thanksgiving. It predicts that the coalition between farm bloc and labor lobby may not last. James Hoffa, Teamsters union vice-president, allegedly tarnished his reputation with regard to the Teamsters union stock issue in Montgomery Ward.

The article focuses on the appearance of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower before the National Citizens for Eisenhower Congressional Committee at Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C. in June 1954. He was serenaded by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet at the lobby of the hotel. He laid down a pitch for his legislative program before 500 district leaders. His speech has reportedly demonstrated his ability to combine honest partisanship with a nonpolitical appeal.

Between 1910 and 1920 the number of farms in the United States increased from 6,361,502 to 6,448,366, a gain of 86,864, or 1.4 per cent. In this same ten years the number of farms operated by their owners decreased 23,627 or 0.6 per cent. The farm lands of the United States are steadily passing from the ownership of the men who till them, the real farmers, into the hands of men who hold them as an investment or for speculation. The percentage of owner-managed farms in 1920, 60.9 per cent, is the smallest on record. The agricultural depression of the last year and a half will transfer thousands more farms from the owner-tended to the tenant-tended group. The remedy is to check the increase in land values by shifting taxes from the products of- the farmer's labor--his crops, live stock, buildings, and other improvements on the land--to the site value of the land itself.

The article presents economic and political outlook in the U.S. on December 2, 1961. It states that the U.S. President John F. Kennedy intended to try trade legislation in line with many and new liberal lines. It says that after the death of Senator Styles Bridges, the Grand Old Party (GOP) conservatives become weak in the Congress. It adds that the farm policymakers of Kennedy are giving indications of budget jitters, considering the need to reduce order costs from the White House.

The article presents an outlook for business in the U.S. in December 1956. It says that the U.S. Congress is expected to start slowly in 1957 as the House reorganizes every two years, which would mean that all committees are arranged in a new setup. The author adds that U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower will be late with his program, the purpose of which is to give the Administration the benefit of the latest developments in the Middle East in writing future foreign policy. The banking legislation and the farm legislation are also discussed.

The article reports on the decision of U.S. farmers to start producing spring crops as they wait for the farm legislation that is set to be cleared in the U.S. Congress in April 1956. It says that farmers are planting oats and preparing to plant corn in a belt from Maryland all the way through Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. According to the author, the ground is filled with a winter wheat crop in the commercial Wheat Belt. The different uncertainties that U.S. farmers must lived with including prices and weather are also discussed.