Farm population increased

✍ Scribed by R.H.O.

• Book ID: 104132178
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1940
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 64 KB
• Volume: 230
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(40)90393-3

✦ Synopsis

Farm Population Increased.-On January I, 1940, there were 32,245,OOO persons living on farms, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates. This figure is close to the all-time high record of 1916 when the farm population was 32,530,OOO persons. The estimated increase for 1939 was 186,000. The analysis of farm population issued by the bureau in July says: In general, in the area best adapted to commercial farming there was enough migration away from farms in the last decade to have brought about a reduction in farm population, but in areas less well adapted to commercial farming there were increases. R. H. 0.