AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA.
The critical position of agriculture in the United States, where serious overproduction is threatened, is discussed in Nature. "Of the 6,500,000 farmers in the United States, it is alleged that only about one-eigth, or say 800,000, have taken advantage of the most scientific methods and the use of machinery," says the paper. " The others are, hopelessly inefficient and on the brink of destitution and ruin. Over-production with low-price levels is held to be the root cause of the American farmer's plight to-day, and notwithstanding the flood of legislation aiming at his relief there is little hope of a remedy except in a drastic reduction in the number of farmers. . . Hence the only possible solution appears to bo the removal of about 5,000,000 farmers from their homesteads to the cities, that is to say, an exodus from farm to city of approximately 14,000,000 persons."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20385, 14 October 1929, Page 3
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