Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-04-28

appropriation is necessarily large There is al
ways a flood of Grafton pro and con- Here are
some items of general interest that We're SET forrh
in the debate over the appropriation for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1928 (six months OF 1872
calendar year and six months of 1929. First IS
a statement regarding farms and farmers by Rep
resentative Philip H. Stol of South Carolina, IN
effect as follows
From the census of 1920 we find that there are
GAS 343 farms in the United States OF these
farms 3,925O90 are operated by owners, 2454,804
by tenants, and 6S;449 by managers.
The total acreage in farms in 1920 was 955,8S3,
715 acres and of this 503,073O07 acres were elass
fed as improved land. The average acreage per
farm was 1882 acres The value per farm is liked
at S120S4. 1t is interesting to note that OF the
total number of farms 796,535 have an average
of less than 20 each, that there are l5O3f5z
farms with an acreage between 20 and 40 acres
and that of farms with acreage of 30 to ~ acres
there are 1.47474 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
1t is also worthy of note that there are 26I,Il9
farms that are operated by females, and that 1858
per cent were operated by native white farmers
9 per cent by foreign-born white farmers, and l47
per cent by colored farmers.
There are nearly 6,500O00 individual farmers in
+be United States and there are more than 12,
100000 men engaged in this work; the permanent
investment of these farmers in land and equipment
amounts to approximately $4,000 100000 and the
OUTPUT of these farms is worth $25000,0O0OO0 an
nually.
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
the present year amount to $3S,6SS,059 The
amount recommended in the bill now pending is
S3497S033. This sum- compared with the present
appropriations is S3,710026 less than the appro-
priations for the current year and $1,554835 less
than the estimates submitted by the Director of
the Budget through the President It should be
remembered however, that the current law car
ries an appropriation of 100000 for the pur-
chase of forest lands in the Appalachian Mountain
Range and also carries an appropriation OF 81
OOO0OO to be loaned to farmers in the Great
Plains area of the country for the purchase of
seed so 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 one for the operation of the Center Market,
carrying about $165000; an item for the enforce
nent of the packers and stockyards act carrying
S41O5OO; and an item for the enforcement OF
the futures trading act which carries, think,
SOB 600 making the total carried in this bill,
which is not carried in the prior bills, approx
imately 100000.
Of the total appropriations for the Department
of Agriculture, speaking roughly anu generally,
S1SOOOO00 is spent for the conduct of regulatory
services many of which are as directly OF inter-