The Dolores star., 1922-05-05

approprlatlon is necessarily large. There is al
ways i flood of Grafton pro and con. Here are
items of general interest that were set forth
In the debate the appropriation for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1923 (siX months of 1922
calendar year and six months Of 1929. First is
a statement regarding farms and farmers by Rep
resentative Philip II. Stoll of South Carolina, in
effect follows:
From the census of 1920 find that there
6,44S343 farms in the United States. OF these
farms 1925 600 operated by owners 2454,SO4
by tenants, and 6S,449 by managers.
The total acreage in farms in 1920 was 955,Ss3
us acres, and of this SOB 3O73,0O7 class
fed as improved land. The average acreage per
farm was 1882 acres. The value per farm is fixed
at S120S4. 1t is interesting to note that of the
total number of farms 796535 have average
of less than 20 acres EACH that there are 15O3I32
farms with an acreage between 20 and 40 acres
and that of farms with acreage of so to 90 acres
there 1,474,745. In other words, than
one-third of the farmers of the United States are
small farmers and tend less than 80 acres Of land
1t is also worthy of note that there are 261.719
farms that are operated by females. and that 1853
per cent were operated by native white farmers
per cent by foreignborn white farmers, and 14.1
per cent by colored farmers.
There are nearly G5OOOOO Individual farmers in
the United States and there more than 12
100000 engaged in this work the permanent
Investment of these farmers in land and equipment
amounts to approximately $SOOOO.OOOOOO, and the
output of these farms is worth $4,000 100000
nualy.
Here are 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
<he present year amount to S3S,6SS,O59 The
amount recommended in the bill pending Is
S34 ,978 033. This sum, compared with the present
appropriations is S371O,O26 less than the appro-
prations 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
ries an appropriation of S1OOO,OOO for the pur-
chase of forest lands in the Appalachian Mountain
Range and also carries appropriation of So
100000, to be loaned to farmers In the Great
Plains 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 hill. 1t should also be considered
that the pending bill carries three or four new
items, one for the operation of the Center Market
carrying about s165.OOO; item for the enforce.
ment of the packers and stockyards act carving
841O500 and Item for the enforcement of
the futures trading act which carries 7 tbin,
100000. making the total carried in this bill
which Is not carried In the prior bills apnroY
lmatey 100000.
OF the total appropriations for the Department
" Agriculture, speaking roughly, ana generally
S1S,OOOOO Is spent for the conduct of regulatory
services. many of which are as directly of inter