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Show Small Farm Units Are Big Implement Buyers Two-thirds of the one and one-half one-half billion dollars being spent for agricultural implements this year is being expended for small one-family farms, according to a recent survey of the Anti-Friction Dearing Manufacturers Manu-facturers association. For the first time the small farm operator, who owns 6 per cent of the country's total farm acreage, will be the biggest customer for automatic labor-saving implements. The low ebb of farm labor as well as the increase in farm savings has been responsible for the mechanization mechaniza-tion of the smaller farms. One outstanding result Is that by 1950, it is estimated that four million mil-lion farms will produce 33 per cent more than the total production of six million farms before the war. |