Show Farmers Are More Confident The has come up with a bit of encouraging Based on a recent it finds that farmers today arc far more confident than a few years ago that the family farm can meet the competition of the factory-type farming operations of BASED ON its opinion the Journal think these family enterprises arc here to stay-that they will continue to be the bulwark of the nation's agri-culture-and that they bring a vital kind of solid citizenship to the heart of the nation for which they haven't had sufficient as always in the private ownership of land is the foundation of freedom under representative There is no stronger bulwark of private land ownership than the millions of family-owned They are the source of U.S. food and fiber just as they arc the source of political and economic GOVERNMENT farm programs that offer to help the farmer with the one hand and threaten to smother him with controls on the other are an ever-present threat to That is why the nation's largest farm the American Farm Bureau has worked steadily for adherence to the principles of voluntarism and a free market in |