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Show Veterans, War Workers Who Thin to Co Hark to Land When Peace Conies, Should He Cautious, Hoard Warns Estimates show that about 900.000 ' New York state residents will be I demobilized from the armed forces, I and another 500.000 from war Industries In-dustries If the proportion of these men Interested In farming runs about the same as it does in our total state population, about 75.000 persons from the Empire state will be looking for piace on the land. Purchase of lubmarglnal land unfit for the farming of today la only one pitfall which veterans and war work ers will need help to avoid, says the New York State Rural Policy committee. com-mittee. Others are purchase ol farms, at perhaps Inflated values, with a large debt; location in an area which carries on a type of farming farm-ing different from their past experience; experi-ence; and too hasty purchase of land that will tie them down before they get adjusted to "staying put." Actually, only 30 per cent of the land In up-state New York Is well adapted to farming today, and much of this land Is in established farms that will not be I t sale. Another 38 per cent is fair farm land. County agricultural defense committees, com-mittees, or 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-ductive and self sustaining citizens, the state policy group advised. |