, 1922-04-27

eppropr,ntlon Is necessarily large. There Is al
ways i food of grafton pro and con. Here are
some Items of general interest that were set forth
In the deinte over the n~ppropria ton for the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1923 (six months of l922
calendar year and six months of 1929. First Is
II statement regarding farms and farmers by hep-
resentative Philip III. Stoll Of South Carolina. III
effect as follows:
From the census of 1920 we find that there are
6.4i8,343 farms in the United States. or these
farms 3,925.0 are operated by owners, 2.454,SOI
by tenants. and 6S,449 by managers.
The total acreage in firms in 1920 was 955,Ss3.-
7I5 acres, and of this 503,0 73,0OT acres We're classi-
fled as improved land. The average acreage per
farm was 1852 acres. The value per farm is fixed
mt S120S4. II is interesting to note that of the
total number of farms 796.535 have an average
OF less than 20 acres each, that there are l.aO3,i32
farms with an acreage between 20 and 40 acres.
and that OF farms with acreage of so to 80 acres
there are 1,f74,745. In other words, more than
onc-third of the farmers OF the United States are
small farmers. and tend less than 80 acres OF land.
II is also worthy of note that there are 26lH19
farms TINT are operated by females, and that 1853
per cent were operated by nutive white farmers.
. per cent by foreign-born white farmers. and HI
pes cent by colored farmers.
There are nearly 6.5O0.OOO Individual farmers In
the United states and there are more than r.
100000 men engaged in this work; the permanent
Investment of these farmers in land and equipment
amounts to approximately S0,000.OOO.OOO and the
output OF these farms is worth 500. OO0.0O0.000 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 S3s,6SS,O59. The
amount recommended In the bill now pending Is
S3f.9TSO33, This sum-, compared with the present
appropriations. Is S3,T1OO2G less than the nppro-
printions for the current year and $1,554,S35 less
than the estimates submitted by the Director OF
the Budget through the President. II should be
remembered. however, that the current law car
riesrnn appropriation OF 81. 100000 for the pur-
chase Of forest lands in the Appalachian Mountain
Range aud also carries an appropriation Of So
100000. to be loaned to farmers In the Great
Plains area ~ the country for the purchase OF
seed, so that the bill In fact, eliminating new items
which have been ndded, Is approximately 100000
less than the regular items carried In the current
appropriation I'm. II should also be considered
that the pending bill carries three or four new
items, one for the operation OF the Center Market.
Carrying about Si65,OO0; an item for the enforce
ment- Of the packers and stockyards act carrying
SiiO.hO0. ana m item for the enforcement OF
tho futures trading net which carries, | think.
SiW3,GoO, making the total carried In this hill.
which Is not carried In the prior bills. approx.
imnteiy 100000. t. ar.a.s 81 49,
OF the total appropriations for the Department
OF Agriculture. speaking roughly and generally,
SiS.o00oo0 IL spent for the conduct OF regulatory
seiTices, many OF which arr us directly OF Inter.