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munity from a homogeneous mass of well-acquainted citizens to a 

 heterogeneous mass of people from neighboring states. — Pike county. 



Large farms need to be cut into smaller ones, but farmers do not 

 favor the plan. All seem to want more land, although they cannot get 

 labor to save all they now raise. Renters are wanting to buy, but advance 

 price compels them to buy smaller farms and usually poorer land than 

 they have been farming as renters, so they are hard to deal with.— Pettis 

 county. 



The general condition of the farmers in this part of the country is 

 very prosperous. Rural mail serves every family. All have telephones. 

 Anything we have to sell brings a good price. "What we buy is reason- 

 able. In fact, from every viewpoint the farmers are nabobs, but all do 

 not realize it yet. — Harrison county. 



To know what to plant and how to plant it, and know what stock 

 best to keep, and how to keep it, all for profit. — Sullivan county. 



I think the farmers will have to organize before they will be really 

 independent. There are too many farmers who are not studying their 

 business. We will have to use the improved methods of farming before 

 we get the best results from our farms. — Lawrence county. 



There is altogether too much carelessness exercised among the farmer 

 class, _ and a large per cent, undertake too many acres. — Mississippi 

 county. 



Better things will follow the manure spreader, cream separator and 

 silo — a natural result, not a spasmodic splurge produced by mouthings 

 of yellow press and yellow politicians. — Scotland county. 



Too few farmers know about the cost of living, or of many other 

 items. — Pettis county. 



There is no doubt in my mind, but that there are a number of farm- 

 ers who would be better off today if they were renters instead of so- 

 called farmers, considering the big incumbrances held on the farm by 

 eastern companies. — Caldwell county. 



Many persons who used to rent land are either farming their own 

 land or working for wages. Rental on good land is so high that many 

 prefer to buy, pay interest and get the advance, rather than pay the 

 rental. — Clinton county. 



The farmers in this neighborhood are shipping their lambs together, 

 and we have a few beef clubs. People are building better homes, a num- 

 ber of houses going up now with water system. — Ray county. 



A marked improvement in rural schools should be brought about. 

 Central high schools for our country boys and girls are very much de- 

 sired. We need some reasonable change in money legislation, whereby 



