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pulled out of the loss he sustained in 1920 until he now has 

 his farm practically free of debt. 



4. (A) The two cases which I will give you are called 

 Mr. Brown and Mr. Jones, which are far from the names. 

 About twelve years ago the company which I represent fin- 

 ished cutting the timber off of some of their holdings and 

 built houses on it in the cut-over state and offered the 

 farmers what they could make on it three years for putting it 

 into cultivation. Mr. Brown moved on 40 acres of this land 

 with a wife and five children, a pair of small mules, about 

 60 bushels of corn, a few tools, one milk cow, about 30 head 

 of chickens and about a 40 pound shoat and $85.00 in money. 

 Today Mr. Brown owns 110 acres of land on which he owes 

 about $4,000.00. He owns 6 head of good mules, 5 good milk 

 cows, about 150 pure bred chickens and 12 or 14 head of 

 registered Poland China hogs, has a nice home orchard, has 

 his place well fixed up with necessary out buildings and 

 conveniences, owns his own automobile, pays cash for every- 

 thing he buys, and borrows no money. He is a member of the 

 school board in his local community and is an upstanding 

 leading citizen. 28 



(B) Mr. Jones moved on just as good a piece of land on 

 the same kind of trade about the same time with a wife and 

 three children, 4 head of mules better than the mules Mr. 

 Brown had, but no cows, no chickens, no hogs, a Buick auto- 

 mobile, and $600.00 in money. When we foreclosed on Mr. 

 Jones two years ago because he was dropping further and 

 further in debt we charged off to profit and loss a little 

 better than $2,000.00, and today Mr. Jones is making a 

 share crop. His son is making a share crop and both of his 

 daughters have married share croppers. There was no dif- 

 ference in the two men's conditions, but there was a big 

 difference in the personal equation. One man attempted from 



26 Letter from manager of a lumber company in Ark., March, 

 1928. 



