RURAL FAMILY LIFE
AMERICAN CONCERN The importance of the farm family to the nation was the primary subject on the docket of proposed resolutions presented at the annual meeting' of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federation, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor. Most of the nation’s children came from farm homes, it was pointed out, and within three generations, 80 per cent, of the population of the United States will have come from -a ‘farm home.
In the belief that the family-sized farm offers the best opportunity for the development of the farm family the committee recommended that all agricultural policy, including price and production, credit and land policies, be directed toward the maintenance of the family-sized farm and the long-time objective of owner-operated farms. “We are opposed to any attempt to use. the farm as a dumping ground for the unemployed,” the committee said. “There are many indications that we need fewer, rather than more, people engaged in agriculture, and any general back-to-the-farm movement might be disastrous to the ability of the farm home to conserve the best values of rural family life.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 94, 14 February 1947, Page 6
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