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Greenfield in 1924The government did not give up on addressing the problem when it ended subsidies.

It had previously commissioned a number of studies on the agricultural situation and related factors, and converted some of the results of these studies into legislation.

The Debt Adjustment Act of 1923 was designed to adjust farmers ' debts to a level that they could actually pay, thus allowing them to carry on while still ensuring that creditors received as much as was feasible.

In the words of University of Calgary professor David C. Jones, the bill offered " solace, but no real satisfaction ".

According to Jones, Greenfield's attempts to rescue southern Alberta from agricultural calamity were probably doomed to failure.

Even so, Greenfield had called the situation his top priority, and his failure to bring it to a successful resolution cost him politically.