Show farm machine sales show big increase comparative study of the farm situation since 1935 with the five year period preceding the world war reveals that current purchases of farm machinery and motor vehicles has doubled those made in the early period the great increase was m md made d e in the purchases of motor vehicles while expenditures for other farm machinery averaged about the same the number of horses and mules on farms was reduced from 25 to 15 million head and the number of hired laborers employed was about 13 per cent lower than in the prewar pre war years the number of farms is about 10 per cent greater the acreage cultivated has increased and agricultural ri production is materially greater than it was |