The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-10
PLANNED ACREAGE
PROGRAM PUSHED
,.fo,mation On Progress OF
Undertakings Present.
ed By Cardwell
CITY A.
General Agricultural Agent
.u.ntic Coast Line Railroad
Company

- Use L lollAA
lanu am now passing on to
fessi uasders some recent informa-
my about the progress being made
'l0'i ,snd use planning as told in
laoI,Sc .rT GUIDE, publication
.se Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
Oh aH Consumers Counsel
niliI and reprinted in Exten-
division News, Virginia Poly
s sion institute, May issue. This
lselr is being circulated simply
nav aformation. and in serial form
t,ree letters because of the leng-
n Of the article.
ID land Use Program Plan
ming Grows
ne q tough fact, but true that
can't discover" the g d
~? Tsa as a prospector discovers
NY lld M shaft shot into the earth,
~ natient panning of the sands in
~ liver, can bring forth the per-
fort pattern for living.
what each of us wants, what all
i rs want. changes in substance
and shape and place and time.
IInu, we get it must necessarily
evolve. too,
But people in democratic coun-
tries hold stubbornly to one faith:
Tnat the chance for everyone to
aet a better living increases as
people pull together.
that's why county land-use plan
ming committees are forming hith-
.. and yon over the country.
That's why 38 states already have
soreed to create state land-u S e
nianning committees. That's why
a special office of government has
heen created in the Department of
Agriculture to serve as connect
Ing link in the planning done by
counties and states to the east and
north. to the west and south.
Committees are Workshops
County and state land-use plan
ming committees are workshops in
which farmers, technical experts,
and administrators of farm pro-
grams pool their experience; work
out detailed analyses of the land
resources and needs of their own
communities: scrutinize plans for
aid in their communities; and adj
lust programs to the necessities of
their own people.
They are a brand new venture
in citizen collaboration. Each col
laborator has his own contribution
to make to better land use. Each
has something to learn from the
other. Together, their talents are
multiplied and their forces gener-
ate new energy for the building OF
a sounder. healthier agriculture.
There was a time when people
operated on the theory that edu-
cation alone would achieve f o r
tsrmers the good life. Those who
we're not smart enough to learn
good farming, those who were not
digent enough to practice it.,
could be left by the wayside. Edu-
cation was the cure-all of farm
problems.
That was before the Great war,
when farmers problems conferred
largely on how to get more and
more farm produce. There were
markets at home and markets a.
broad. Vast, unsaturated markets.
Growing markets. Markets to be
mad BY the farmer who was smart
CROUCH to plant the right products,
produce the right quality, market
with efficiency.
Action Programs to Meet Changes
Times changed with the Great
War. One by one, countries abroad
turned their backs on American
farm products. One by one, they
raised high tariffs, laid h e a v y
'moargoes, imposed taxes on inn
ports OF farm products. After the
great flush of glory in the 20's,
zen American markets for farm
plooucts collapsed. Depression
swept the land. Millions of work
CTS were laid off. Wages swooped
Gown to subsistence levels and be-
.oW' Prices shrank. Unemployed
suns and daughters moved back
ee land. Stagnation spread.
Beng one degree smarter than
me next man doesn't help much
s.en an earthquake burst S
uIough the crust of things as they
~e' earthquakes are no respect
Oh persons. Nor are depres.
n0's' Their bricks and stones fall
;a me wise and the stupid. As
,a aalvlouals both are helpless. To-
~" out'ef they must pull each other
WI OF the debris.
farmers learned that in 1888.
in ;o, learned it again in 1894 and
s 1850 when drought and d u S I
lso a'ils laid dead hands on the
faru. out of this knowledge grew
citi ni demand for help from the
fnos s' dependent on farms fol
cit;a as farmers are dependent or
NAes Tor income.
pnl Maa the cities and the farms
ccea together. Out of a national
siesS came programs of relief.
proa, An Agricultural Adjustment
Agr;a aam' later followed by a r
p ssm Conservation pro.
ductis, 10 help farmers adjust pro.
bort 70 market needs, to sup.
10 be1pn ,iees Of basic farm crops,
Soil II farmers husbands t h I
Of thsi, nelp farmers produce more
Soil r own fool supplies. A
tarn conservation program to show
land now to stop wastage Of
or.- A Farm Coo,r .ro