Show GETTING DOWNTO DOWN TO EARTH the occle secretary tary of agriculture re bently warned the settlers of a hard hara pressed western wes tern reclamation unit that they were grasping after the will o the wisp of too much land that would breal break them instead of careau cul ti bating smaller acreage that should make them rich when the great twin fallt falls irrigation tract in idaho was opened the average holding was wa s above ners many of the first holders worked themselves into the poorhouse ar or the grave trying to pay up on so much land but every year the average holding has decreased until it is ia now under 20 acres acrea and they are stead instead ins of bro keThe okanogan Oka nogan project in washington where the holdings have nave receded in size to only 12 acre is producing an average of an acre a year according to tri federal figures smaller farms better crops and business j the sure foundation of farm prosperity it is not a matter of legislation or or state aid |