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Farmers at the Crossroads, by Ezra Taft Benson (as told to Carlisle Bargeron). 107 pp. New York: Devin-Adair Company. $2.50

“As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” our Secretary of Agriculture, the Bibleknowing Mr. Ezra Taft Benson, loves to quote. His account of how the hodgepodge farm “policy” of the past generation has sown seeds of politics and bureaucracy and has reaped a whirlwind of lost markets, gluts, surplus farmers, and catastrophic waste makes a grim lesson in the fruitlessness of intervention.

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Farmers at the Crossroads, by Ezra Taft Benson (as told to Carlisle Bargeron). 107 pp. New York: Devin-Adair Company. $2.50

“As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” our Secretary of Agriculture, the Bibleknowing Mr. Ezra Taft Benson, loves to quote. His account of how the hodgepodge farm “policy” of the past generation has sown seeds of politics and bureaucracy and has reaped a whirlwind of lost markets, gluts, surplus farmers, and catastrophic waste makes a grim lesson in the fruitlessness of intervention.