Excerpt from The Farm Security Administration Today there are more than tractors in use-near1y six times as many as there were in.1920. Nearly every one of these tractors has pushed a few tenants, sharecroppers, or hired hands out of jobs. On one typical Mississippi Delta plantation, for example, the landlord recently bought 22 tractors. He turned off 130 of the 160 sharecropper families which used to work the land, keeping only 30 to handle the new machinery. All this means that fewer people are needed to raise our farm ...
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Excerpt from The Farm Security Administration Today there are more than tractors in use-near1y six times as many as there were in.1920. Nearly every one of these tractors has pushed a few tenants, sharecroppers, or hired hands out of jobs. On one typical Mississippi Delta plantation, for example, the landlord recently bought 22 tractors. He turned off 130 of the 160 sharecropper families which used to work the land, keeping only 30 to handle the new machinery. All this means that fewer people are needed to raise our farm products. One man can harvest as much grain with modern machinery as 30 men could a century ago. We can fill all the normal demands for farm products both for home use and for export - with fewer farm workers today than in 1930. Yet most of these surplus farm workers have not been able to find jobs elsewhere; they are still on the land, often with no work at all, or at best a few weeks in harvesttime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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