• Mussolini as farmer – archive, 15 October, 1928

    15 October, 1928: Encouraging Italy to be self-supporting, the Duce acknowledges farmers who have increased grain outputRome, Sunday
    In the Argentina Theatre at Rome this morning the Duce distributed prizes ranging from £20 to £200 to Italian farmers who had increased the grain output within the past year. Among the names of the £20 prize-winners was that of Benito Mussolini himself, who had tripled the output on his small experimental farm holding in his native village of Carp

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