New Britain herald., 1930-10-18
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be combined with industry.
 The scheme fits into the new farm system of great men and great estates discussed by Prof. William E. Dodd of the University of Chi cago.
 such men," the professor said, might control planting, fix prices, hold their own against industrialist organizations and maintain high tariffs against foreign competitors. They would then enter the associa- ton of industrialists and financiers and have their proper share in SO cial and economic control. But that would mean day and week workers al lover the farm districts or share tenantry for the better laborers-th esystem under which feudal Europe lived for half thou sand years"
 Foursquare against "factorNized farming" apparently stands the farmer, himself and his government.
 In his address of acceptance or the nomination, Herbert Hoover declared that farming is and must continue to be an individual1stfC business Of small units and indepen- dent ownership. The farm Is more than business; it is state Of liv- ing. We do not wish 1t converted into a mass production machine" ~.
 Every effort of the government is directed toward keeping the indf- vdual farmer on his own land. They say the American farm fa4l- fly has stood the test of centuries and has been the cradle of much that is best in American life, that human nature would have to change before farming becomes a central- ized industry.
 Others hold that the governments present program for maintaining the individual farmer is admission in itself of the failure of the American system of agriculture. s. Between the extremes in middle ground apparently taken by most writers who urge continuance Of the family farm as the foundation of agriculture but who insist the size of the farm will have to be in creased to permit the efficient use of modern equipment. | In the meantime there has grown up all around the farmer with varying degrees of success large scale operations designated inter- changeably as chain farming, fac tory farming. industralized farm ing, group management, supervised farming, management farming and corporation farming.
 The Campbell Farming corpora ton of Hardin, Mont. and the Wheat Farming corporation of Hays Kan, are notable among the large scale wheat enterprises.
 While the first farms 100000 acres and the latter 66,o00, neither dispossessed very many resident | farmers.
 The Campbell company leases Crow Indian land and the Wheat Farming corporation has it's chief holdings in the little titled and un- settled western areas of Kansas. Thomas D. Campbell of the Mon- tana concern now proposes indus trialized farming of 50,000 acres in North Carolina's unused coastal plains, operating the property of August Heckscher, New York capi- talist, who spent s9,000,000 in a | fruitless effort to make the drained bed of Lake Mattamuskeet pay diyi- dends. His plan calls for a diver ! ci q apriplI1fnro Snito GIn thu south.
 l A different approach Is presented 1 by the Collins Farms company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. which produces corn, wheat, sweet clover and soy beans in 1,000-acre units on 25.000 acres in S1 Iowa counties. It is buying farms outright, tearing away fences and old buildings and im- proving the land with no view to resale.
 The Doane Agricultural service of St. Louis and the Farmers Ma tional company of Omaha, Neb.. oP- crate farms for fee but do not own the land. The first manages 100, 900 acres in seven states and the latter 25O, 900 acres on 500 farms.
 There are some 10000 large scale farm enterprises, for the most part confined to localities and crops and conditions suited to their in- dividual requirements. They are I notably absent in the more pros- porous and intensely farmed areas.