\"A study of depressions since the Civil War brings out the conclusion that if a decline in the agriculture purchasing power did not actually start the general economic collapse if added almost immediately its immense weight to the general collapse with a vast and devastating impetus\"

\"When agricultural land and its productivity falls below a certain standard in relation to the population, meat, poultry and dairy products become either prohibitively high in price or altogether unobtainable and a direct cereal diet becomes the necessity of the bulk of any population\"

-Louis Bromfield