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Show OUR FARMS INCREASE.. Preliminary returns from the- farm census ind:cate a marked increase in the number of farms, attractable, according ac-cording to officials, to the nurrfaer of persons who went back to the country coun-try when city jobs vanished. In 1930 we had 0.300,000 (farms, j and the new count will show- about ; 500,000 mere. The farms, it : true, j are smaller and the population larger. Whether the acreaga in eultit ation ; has increased canfiot be deterj lined ' until the census is completed. The chances are that many oj' the new farms are sujbsisttfnce projects, undertaken by persons who have been! forced to go back to. tho primary' source of life when other, pursuits failed them. |