The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-05-11

appropriation is necessarily large. There is al
ways i flood of oraton pro and con. Here are
some items of general interest that were set forth
In the debate the appropriation for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1923 (six months of 1872
calendar year and six months of 1929. First Is
a statement regarding farms and farmers by Rep
resentative Philip Fl. Stoll of South Carolina in
effect follows:
From the census of 1920 we find that there are
644S343 farms in the United States. Of these
farms 3925,O90 are operated by owners, 2,454SO4
by tenants, and 6S,449 by managers.
The total acreage in farms in 1920 was 95o,SS3.-
715 acres and of this 5O3O73007 acres were cassi-
fed as improved land. The average acreage per
farm was 1882 acres. The value per farm is fixed
at S12OS4. 1t is interesting to note that of the
total number Of farms 1865 have an average
of less than 20 acres each that there are 15O313
farms with acreage between 20 and 40 acres,
and that of farms with acreage of 90 to 30 acres
there are 1,4T4 745. In other words, more than
one-third of the farmers of the United States are
small farmers and tend less than 80 acres of land.
It is also worthy OF note that there are 261.119
farms that operated by females, and that 1913
per cent were operated by native white farmers,
per cent by foreign-born white farmers, and 141
per cent by cOlOred farmers.
There are nearly 6,500OO0 individual farmers In
the United States and there more than r.
100000 men engaged in this work; the permanent
Investment of these farmers in land and equipment
amounts to approximately $SO,00O,0OO,O0O, and the
output Of these farms is worth $25 900 100000 an
nualy.
Here interesting points in the statement OF
Representative Sidney Anderson of Minnesota OF
the appropriations committee:
The total appropriations carried for the regu-
lar work of the Department of Agriculture during
the present year amount to $3S,6SS059. The
amount recommended In the bill now pending Is
S3497S,033. This sum, compared with the present
appropriations, is S37l0,026 less than the appro-
priations for the current year and 81 554 S35 less
than the estimates submitted by the Director of
the Budget through the President. 1t should be
remembered, however, that the current law car
res appropriation of $1O00000 for the pur-
chase of forest lands in the Appalachian Mountain
wRange and also carries appropriation of So
O,000 to be loaned to farmers in the Great
aims of the country for the purchase of
seed that the bill in fact. eliminating new items
which have been added. is approximately 100000
less than the regular items carried In the current
appropriation bill. 1t should also be considered
that the pending bill carries three or four new
items for the operation Of the Center Market
carrying about $165 900; an item for the enforce
ment Of the packers and stOckyards act carrying
S41O,5O0; and item for the enforcement of
the futures trading act which carries | think
S103,600 making the total carried in this bill
which is not carried In the prior bills, approx.
imately 100000.
of Agriculture speaking roughly and generally
services many Of which are as directly Of inter-