Show AGRICULTURE SHOWS snOWS GREAT PROGRESS UNDER r SAYS U. U s agricultural policy polley an and d lot program less have made u It e fOr leu our than 20 I 20 of our peoplE e who h live On the n land to produce e E an abundance for lot the other 80 says yf J. J Vern J-Vern Vern Hopkin of the Utah State commit t. t tee He Ife points out that In tn r ISSor 1850 ISSo- years ago about 70 of 01 th the theu thel e people In l the e United state States s lived on the u e lAnd and had It no not t been for for the abundance of game gam many of them hem would have ha had c d sUm pickings gs- gs Today less tha than n 20 of the People of the United Unite c d nd states live uon on the thc land and y ye yet t I they are able to produce produce abundantly nd- nd antly for the to million People who live ln in n towns an and d clUes cities Compare this thu with conditions condition s in China where approximately 75 IS v ol of the people live Jive land and on th the says the chairman This s is only a little mUe higher than th the e PT percentage on the land in Jn th flat this s country years ago In Pakistan Paki s tan about 80 of the people liv live e on the land In India Its It's about abou t 75 Rome declined when th the e land JT in ln large larse estates estate was worked work work- ed ff by slaves who had little We In intereSt in- in terest throat In the land Mr Hopkin points out th that at one of 01 the major I reasons for th the progress in U S S. S agriculture i Is s the progressive e attitude taken take 0 toward agriculture In this coun coun- try p People here Increasingly re realize re- re alize nize that the country cannot b be e prosperous unless agriculture i Is s prosperous Only then can th the e farmer armer produce abundantly an and d maintain his land so that It will wUl 11 continue to produce abundantly in the chairman's words r research re re- e search conservation and improved imProved im im- proved Proved marketing and aged and supported by the gov gov- government and through price protection pro pro- farmers are able to take tag e advantage of the resulting more mer more e effective affective construction methods method s better machinery improved varieties varieties va va- of crops and more effective efface tive live insecticides and fungicides |