Show french leaving their farms for life in city paris french farmers are increasingly shaking the dust from their I 1 feet and polishing their S shoes hoes in the city the abandonment of the land cherished by its owners as nowhere else in ili the world has begun to arouse aroune grave concern in prance france the value of land lins has sunk stink here since 1913 1013 SO 30 40 and GO per cent tie de pending on whether it ts Is vineyard forest or pasturage sale prices are arc based on what can be coaxed from thu the lind land in the way of revenue this Is to little that farmers no longer buy much and commerce Is feeling the effect unable to make a living farmers culled called often tile alie balbone backbone of 0 france I 1 are abandoning the land the rural I 1 population which was 75 per cent tt bf the whole 50 years ago Is I 1 now only ZO SO tier per cent of the total population since 1913 acres have been takeo taken out of cultivation in the lust list ten years according to official figures farms have been abandoned and are now no longer worked others are being worked by foreigners mostly mosely italians for military r reasons a apparently figures have hate not been wade tunde available since 1927 when foreigners were working acres and were owners of |