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Show Sav.mo;s of Farmers Will Help Sustain Postwar Business v Professor Advocates Postponing of Purchases Of Land and Equipment In the matter of postwar employment, employ-ment, agriculture is different from many other lines of industry, H. C. Case, head of the department of agricultural economics at the University Uni-versity of Illinois, stated in an address ad-dress before the summer conference confer-ence of the Illinois county farm advisors. ad-visors. Much of industry was converted con-verted for the production of war munitions and stopped normal production. Agriculture, on the other oth-er hand, did not greatly change its type of production but intensified production along the same lines. The proportions of crops and livestock live-stock produced were changed, but in general we have produced the same kinds of products. This leads directly to the question of postwar employment. Many people expect new jobs for returned servicemen in agriculture. "There will not be many new jobs In agriculture," Case said. "There will be many replacements. Many farmers, because of the shortage of labor, have continued farming longer long-er than they intended. Some will remain on the farm, but they will want someone to take their place when it comes to heavy farm work. Many boys are becoming old enough to take a man's place on the farm unless more of them continue in school longer than in the past. Some makeshift farm hands have been found in the present labor emergency emer-gency who under normal conditions would not be on farms. After they are replaced by competent farm workers there will not be many new jobs available. Modern improvements improve-ments have continued to make possible pos-sible an increased output per worker work-er in agriculture, resulting in a 50 per cent increase in output per worker over the past 30 years." . Few New Farm Jobs. Although there is little opportunity opportu-nity for an increase in the number of jobs in agricultural production, accumulated saving of the people of i the country of almost 100 billion dol lars by the end of 1944 will help sustain production, provided these savings are' not dissipated by competing com-peting withiothers for the purchase of a limited amount of goods, leading lead-ing only to inflation. "Only by preventing pre-venting serious inflation can we swing into balanced production in the postwar period," Case said. He pointed out that financial reserves of farmers and needs for goods, should help sustain high production. It is significant that in the period from 1937 to 1940, agriculture, with approximately 10 per cent of our national income, expended about 14 per cent of the new outlay for producers' pro-ducers' goods. This is just one indication in-dication of the dependence upon agriculture ag-riculture to bring prosperous conditions condi-tions in the postwar period. During the period 1937 to 1940, it has been estimated that farmers spent about a billion dollars a year for producers' produc-ers' goods, that 'is, buildings, machinery ma-chinery and other production goods. "Any reasonable calculation of the |