APPENDIX 81 



Farm Tenancy in Canada. Per cent of Total Occupiers Who are Tenants 



Shifting of Farmers, or Term Farmer Spends on One Farm. Term of Occupancy 

 of Farm (Owners and Renters) 



Conference of the Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association, 

 Washington, February 26-27, 1919 



Declaration on "Farm Tenancy." "Farm tenancy is a constantly in- 

 creasing menace to a permanent, prosperous, and safe agriculture, and a con- 

 tented country life. It has resulted in a loss of the priceless fertility of the 

 soil 'the creation of an unsettled farm population illiteracy an inefficient 

 country school system a drift from farm to city and unprofitable methods 

 of agriculture. 



" Means must be found by which the industrious young farmer of character 

 and skill in agriculture, even though of limited financial resources, can look 

 forward to becoming a farm owner. 



"This conference recommends that committees on agriculture of the 

 bankers' State associations give serious attention to methods of correcting 

 this dangerous condition. 



"To the committees is suggested the advisability of selecting a banker 

 leader in each county to bring together farm owners and tenants to devise 

 means for the purchase of farms, utilizing governmental and private agencies. 



"The committees should also inspire better systems of leasing that will 

 provide protection for the fertility of the soil, longer tenures, and provisions 

 for the maintenance of livestock." Banker Farmer, April, 1919, p. 2. 



