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Show THE CITIZEN m i Aexsfilltgsi TraiiMs IFaraas G BY WERNER KIEPE Secretary, Salt Lake Real Estate Board HE Nations attention is focused the buying and selling of farm lands. It is indicated by the anon the farm situation in America. One of the prime purposes of swers given that the market for the special session of Congress is farm land is better today than it 'to enact such legislation as will was a year ago. bring quick relief to troubles of the Contrary to the general opinion AsAmerican farmer. The National that farms for actual farming are sociation of Real Estate Boards, becoming more and more the propacting independently and in an enerty of the thrifty Austrian or Botirely different line, recently made hemian immigrant; the data showed a national survey on the difference that 81 per cent of the purchases in the farm market as reflected in were made by native bom Amerithe sales of Realtors specializing in cans in sales where 72 per cent of farm properties, and finds a very the farms were purchased for actual interesting change in the tendency farming purposes and not as investhere. The Association finds that ments. Similarly, if these questionthe farmer no longer considers land naires are to be taken as indicative of in his own immediate neighborhood general trends, the day of the young as he usually did 25x years ago, but couple who are just married and on the average buys land 113 miles take upon themselves immediately distance. the burden of a farm to pay for is followIn the questionnaire the a thing for the pioneer novel; for ing information in regard to the the average age of the buyer for last' five farms sold by each broker the entire group of farms was forty-si- x was requested: date of sales; numyears. ber of acres; price per acre; type Nor, apparently, is this the day of crops one crop or diversified; of the large family on the farm. reason owner wished to sell; wheththe average buyer's family er the buyer has been brought up In fact, as reported through the questionon a farm, worked as a farmhand, naires was four smaller .than the been a tennant of a farm, or had for this country as a whole. average some other owned farm; previously In size, the average number of inthe farm of buying purpose acres in the sales reported was 59, vestment or for farming purposes; with an average cost of $360 per of size of and buyer; nativity age One crop farm predominacre. from source the ; family buyer's with only 31 per cent of the which the broker secured the buyer ated, total' number reported as having dias a prospect and the distance from versified crops. which the buyer lived from the farm The majority of the buyers had and from the broker. been brought up on a farm and had While the answers received included information on only 187 previously owned farms. Few had farm buyers in 21 states, including been tenant farmers or farmhands. The great majority- - of brokers Utah, the percentages drawn from these questionnaires i form material reporting stated that they found their best prospects for selling as direct and as indicative of general trends as any information at farms was through the newspaper present available on the subject of advertising. . -- 15 - dan About Town Continued from page 8 will be the outstanding collection of contemporary art anywhere. If you migsed that exhibit you deprived yourself of a rare treat. Great sight up at the University of Utah Friday for the annual high school day. A couple of thousand high school kids tramping over the campus like they owned it. Gosh, but they look young! Wonder if they're all as smart as they look, or if modem education just pushes them through the mill? This new traffic law enforcement drive is terrible. I can't park , what I laughingly call my car within four blocks, of the business district without getting it tagged after it stands for an hour or so. I'll get even .with them, somehow or other, even if I have to walk to work. I even might get desperate and ride a street car. , And now's the time when sunsets over Great Salt Lake begin to become beautiful. If you're, outside about the time the sun goes down, just look west. It's a sight not equalled anywhere in all the world. The fellow who takes bootleg hootch for the flue is apt to find that the remedy is a lot worse than the disease. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown of stocks that was bought in the market on a margin. ten-poi- nt Somehow we can't visualize a war between England and the United States over the booze ship I'm Alone.'' The stuff hasn't got scarce enough yet to fight over. Some fellows who promise their sweethearts to treat them like movie stars as long as life lasts, make good after the marriage by treating 'em like Rin Tin Tin. Wishing to make certain before I said so, I asked a women's stylist if bare legs for summer are the thing.'' Decidedly not,'' says she. And so, I'm qualified to expert on that angle to the extent that if the woman must appear au naturel, it is her duty to respectability to do it with suntqn & hose. i Canadian airplane lias gone north to take moving .pictures of the Eskimos. One of the most impres- sive movies we ever saw was that of un Eskimo eating a raw fish and washing it down with whale oil. A 0 A Typical Utah Farm Panorama |