Show Agriculture Livestock ant and Livestock BY WILL W BOWMAN I FARM DANGERS DANCERS CAN BE CURBED IS CONTENTION CONTENTION'S S 'S Hazards in Country Are Many Says Safety Council MINNEAPOLIS March tarch Aft S-An t Increase ic Ir the th number of terms farms and a d In the th average av r value of land Ind and buildingS building per p acre characterized the th agricultural agricultural tural situation in tn the th northwest stat stat- statS tt S J the th bat lut five years year Farmers Farmer In the th states of e iota e-iota sota North orth Dakota South Da- Da Dak Da Dale k le- le leand kand and Montana have suffered uK r large laue financial I losses lore due du to te t de- de de deflation during the Interval of I 1 according to the tho th Min Wa loUn- loUn Minneapolis neapolis reserve res rv b nh in Its it end of January bulletin Despite th increase In the numer of ot farms farm tanna the acreage of ofa 41 4 a and In farm in 1925 In these th stour four states tate r w s I f S per cent smaller maller than In 1920 1020 I 20 The Th reduction was Wal most mort pronounced In South Dakota The reserve re bank report points out tint that the th average value ot of land t id buildings build Inri per acre tn In Minneita declined from 1 10 O In 1920 20 to 80 10 in 1925 In North Dakota from 41 t l to ta 30 3 In South Dakota tom 71 to US 45 5 and In lIl Ii lIln n s n-s 2 23 to lit 14 U The Th decline of farm ta-m values dur- dur durIn In dur-In In lur th period has ha been due dum- dum m In v v to t 1 slump jin in land val val- value valtie val value ue tie I as J x nd ad Improve Improvements ments meats on the tho farms farm have hav held their values value lI ad Ld d In cde cd 7 T lis il grea gre re reduction In lit th the value itc to the th r- r ye lene Iere erv bank figures figure been b n accompanied panicS with with financial causing a great number of ot bank bank- bank i |