Show More Tenants on Farms HE report of the house agriculture subcommittee THE I pointing out the rising tide of tenancy tenancy tenancy ten ten- ancy among American farmers is hardly the kind of news we like to hear The subcommittee has found that in 1930 when farm prices and production both th were above normal the net income of the average farm operator was 2650 a month In 1934 it was only 1842 a month Moreover the committee reports the mortgaged mortgaged mort mort- mortgaged farm is producing even less than the ten- ten farm The result of the whole affair is isa isa isa a gradual shift to farm tenancy Less than families remain of the nations nation's once proud group of independent home- home owning farmers and their ranks are thinning every year the committee says This means that whatever the two major parties plan to do about agriculture this this' year they must contemplate contemplate contemplate plate more than temporary measures Agriculture Agriculture I ture is in no position to stand further political |