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Show Veterans, War Workers Who Plan to Go Back to Land I When Peace Comes, Should Be Cautions, Board Warns get adjusted to "staying put." Actually, only 30 per cent of the land in up-stnte New York is well adapted to farming today, and much of this land is in established farms that will not be for 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. Estimates show that about 900.000 , New York state residents will be i demobilized from the armed forces. ! and another 500,000 from war in-i in-i dustrics. If the proportion of these I 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 a place on the land. Purchase of submarginal land unfit for the farming of today is only one pitfall which veterans and war workers work-ers will need help to avoid, says the New York State Rural Policy committee. com-mittee. Others are purchase of farms, at perhaps inllated values, with a large debt; location in an area which carries on a type ot farming farm-ing different from their past experience; experi-ence; and too hasty purchase of land that will tie them down before they |
