American experts have been studying the Mahan National Plan of Land Utilization with a view of borrowing some of its features most appropriate to the problems facing the Department of" Agriculture in the United States. Both in size and scope the American problem over~ shadows that which is being capably tackled by I! Duce, and the American authorities have no gospel of implicit obedience with which to Feinforee the advice they may give the farmers. A recent review. of their problem shows that efforts to enforce crop reduction—before the made that unnecessary—seeds of greater ce: operation.
in" the farming communities and have demonstrated anything else might have uselessness of blind com= petition in present conditions. luddition the depression has caused return of many rural workers to the land from the cites where they locked during times of prosperity. Thus two important steps have been taken in the Government's rehabilitation programme. But it has been shown that one half of the farms in the United States work on what might be described as a starvation margin, either through the poorness of their soil or for Feasons connected with their situation in relation to markets, Round this fact the gravity of the American problem revolves. The slightest misfortune throws the farmer of this class into the lap of relief organiza Mons, and very deep-seated reforms appear to be needed before this will ease to be the case.
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