Millard County Chronicle | 1928-07-05 | Page 3 | Farm Population Began to Decrease in This Country Forty Years Ago

Farm Population Began to Decrease in This This' Country Forty I By DR C. C J. J GALPIN Federal Economist Although accentuated by the recent period of agricultural depression depres depres- sion the farm exodus in America really started years ago and in some states during an era of great prosperity Farm decreased in a number of states ago and in others as a's as long as ten twenty and nd thirty Jears ngo with the exodus as marked in good years as in bad There was an actual decrease in the strong agricultural tates of Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa and Missouri from 1900 to uno 1910 It coinS coin with an era of great agricultural prosperity and a still rising tide of farm tendency on the best lands in the Middle West Explain the social phenomena ns as the result of the passing of thesE states i into o the industrial column the evolution of growing town tow s into growing the continued adoption of science in agriculture with no new outI outlet t. t in agricultural processes for far farm workers displaced Loss of farm population may be expected to continue until the urban I demand for food and fiber has overtaken the growing efficiency of farn farin mg ing S I 1 I