ABSTRACT
If the New Deal should falter, then, the National Recovery Administration could prove that it was hampered by the ridiculously high wages that the Civil Works Administration (CWA) insisted on paying. The CWA was allocating funds, and the Department of Agriculture wanted ten million dollars for a census—a very unusual census to be sure. The representative of the Department of Agriculture was queried as to the government's position if farm prices did not rise or if they rose and slipped back before the loan was repaid. An applicant can obtain a tract of land from the federal government in any one of several western states. For the land they owned and the products they sold would rise in price. No longer would large estates remain untilled and apples rot because men were too poor to purchase them. During the early 1920s thousands of acres of pasture land were ploughed up and for several years the crop yields were excellent.
