In other words, there would be no great farm market 

 for manufactured products. 



City Growth Likely to Continue 



Summarized, the situation is as follows : The total 

 volume of food and other farm products required in- 

 creases with the growth of our population. Increased 

 efficiency of farm labor, through the use of more 

 power machinery and better methods of farming, 

 makes it possible for a relatively smaller number of 

 people to produce the food and raw materials re- 

 quired by our population. 



It is generally agreed that in the near future, by 

 employing better methods in farming and improved 

 machinery, each farm family on the average will 

 produce a larger volume of food perhaps the food 

 required for five or six families, or possibly even more, 

 rather than for three families as at present. Hence, 

 a relatively smaller number of families will be required 

 on farms. 



Each farm family produces more and has greater 

 buying power. A rapidly rising standard of living 

 inevitably follows. 



Naturally this change means a vastly larger de- 

 mand on the part of farm families for a great variety 

 of merchandise. At the same time a larger city popu- 

 lation is likely to be required to produce this in- 

 creased output of manufactured products. Hence, 

 the cities are likely to continue to grow more rapidly 

 than the rural population. 



In other words, the farming population had per- 

 manently passed to a new standard of earning and 

 spending even before the war opened. However, 

 with war prices the upward movement of farm in- 

 comes proceeded far more rapidly. 



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