CHAPTER 3 



FARM LABOR AND 

 MACHINERY 



THE CITY dweller knows that there is a shortage of certain 

 kinds of foods. He has been told that he himself was re- 

 sponsible. Others say the shortage of food is due to a lack of 

 machinery. Perhaps the majority attribute it to the shortage 

 of farm labor. 



Farm Labor 



Widespread concern regarding farm labor came with the 

 opening days of 1943, when there were somewhat more than 

 the usual number of farm sales. Much of the misunderstand- 

 ing of the labor situation arises from such superficial observa- 

 tions rather than lack of facts. 



Modern Farming Requires Many Skills 



The modern farm worker is neither the straw-chewing rus- 

 tic pictured in the funny papers nor the grasping lobbyist 

 described in the metropolitan press. He is an intelligent, 

 hard-working, resourceful individual who takes rather seri- 

 ously his job of feeding the world. 



The days are gone when "any fool could farm." The mod- 



