Sane farmers knew that the constitution gave them all of the freedoms "demanded," but that violence was not included and so the Holiday movement ended for a lot of farmers.

In checking canceled checks of a stock buyer, we find samples of real depression prices in 1934. On August 1, 1934, he bought 21 head of calves from Mary Lucht for $619.40. On October 22, he bought one bull from Ben Schecht for $27.50. On September 25, 320 head of lambs were bought for $685.87.

Francis Zimmerman, in 1938, 1939 and 1940 was in Dairy 4-H Club work. His Jersey heifer had a calf and when it was about six weeks old he thought it was drinking too much milk, robbing of cream profits. He talked with Tim Preece as to prices. Tim thought it would bring $6.00 or $7.00. Francis had a trucker take his calf to the sale barn. After selling costs and trucking were deducted he received a check for 13¢/ He still has the check as it would have cost 5¢ to cash it.

President Roosevelt's administration came out with first one and then another farm program to rehabilitate the farmer. First came Feed and Seed Loans, then the Corn-Hog Program from which eventually controlled raising of hogs was attempted. Controlled acreage of corn and certain other commodities became a manner of farming. The Crop Sealing plan to allow the farmer to keep his crop on the farm, borrow on it at a fixed price and then in a certain time redeem it by repaying his loan or deliver the grain to the Commodity Credit Corporation when called upon to do so. This latter plan is still in effect.

Then came the Soil Bank Plan in which a farmer is allowed payment for acreage kept out of cultivation in an effort to control production and surpluses.

Readers probably are wondering why we write about those terrible trying years in our history. It was done to alert us all that equitable laws and loyalty, thrift and faith in God, vigilance—not vigilantes and lawlessness, are the safeguard for peace and freedom. We should thank our God that our country, in those dark days, was spared from anarchy and further chaos.

We cannot leave this sordid story without adding one for a chuckle: Joe Dufphey had sold his homestead out in Schoolcraft Precinct shortly before the boom days in late 1918 and 1919. He sold for $100.00 per acre and a few months later the prices had more than doubled. Joe came down the street one morning, and as was his custom, with his thumbs hitched into his suspenders when he met a friend and the conversation turned to the inflated prices being paid for farm land. Joe said, "When I sold my old farm for $100.00 an acre last year, I thought I had just raised h - - -. Now I know I did."

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