Show LAND STUDIED Experts Find Surprising Conditions Conf Con- Con f in Agricultural tural State t W WASHINGTON March Much 8 P p JP Gov Government land experts trying to solve the riddle of putting J I farm land to practical use center their attention on three areas They are the APpalachian and Piedmont plateau Maryland aryland south and mid west into from rom Mississippi the timber area bordering the Great Lakes and md the edge of the great plains However in studying a 1 representative J i tive county instead of examining one of these admittedly Boor poor areas they went into a rich agricultural agricultural ag ag- ag state and bared some ome eye eye- opening facts Of the acres of land and in the county count studied acres are so oW badly eroded and the soil so poor tot that it is 3 of little agricultural value p ST ST. the population copulation has declined from 15 15 i JS no 20 in 1900 to in 1930 Forests have been depleted game abott exterminated many farms a l n d tax units bankrupt and BO 60 K per cent of the people have asked tr Cr melved relief Only acres ii 11 regarded ed as productive farm land This area the planning land group declares presents all the reasons for forI I planned lanned interference with the de de- de wastage which has prevailed under individual exploitation of soil and natural resources This countr county coun coun- ty tr represents a splendid opportunity far rehabilitation of rural living conditions con con- and the restoration and on of the natural resources The planners propose to buy the entire entire en en- tl tire e inal acres acres per per- nade Rade the farm families on it to move t la b subsistence homesteads on the tract tact itself or t to a small community where here convenient con churches a and l nd could be built abandon the present farms roads churches ant and put the former former farmers farmers a at work ork restoring the area establish a aIn aitt itt In small industries and guarantee the families higher returns they live been making from farming |