| Show Veterans War Workers Who Plan to Go Back to Land When Peace Comes Should Be Cautious Board Warns I Estimates show that about New York state residents will be demobilized from the armed forces and another from war var in in- If U the proportion of these men interested in farming runs about the same as it does in our total state population about persons from the Empire state willbe will willbe willbe be looking for a p place ace on the land Purchase of land unfit for the farming of today is only one pitfall which veterans and war workers workers work ers will need help to avoid says the New York State Rural Policy com corn Others are purchase of farms at perhaps inflated values with a large debt location in anarea anarea an anarea area which carries on a type of farmIng farmIng farm- farm Ing different from their past experience ence and anti too hasty purchase of land that will tie them down b before fore they get adjusted to staying put Actually only 30 per cent of 01 the land in up-state up New York is well adapted to farming today and much of this land is in esta established bUshed farms that will not be bc for sale Another 38 33 per cent is fair farm land County agricultural defense committees com corn or 01 other groups should be charged with the responsibility of helping men who wish to return to the land In order that they make good investments and become productive pro pro- and sc sustaining self citizens the state policy group advised |
