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GENERAL STATEMENT 



Broadly speaking, agriculture in the United 

 States is prosperous and the conditions in many 

 of the great farming regions are improving. 

 The success of the owners and cultivators of good 

 land, in the prosperous regions, has been due 

 partly to improved methods, largely to good 

 prices for products, and also to the general ad- 

 vance in the price of farm lands in these regions. 

 Notwithstanding the general advance in rentals 

 and the higher prices of labor, tenants also have 

 enjoyed a good degree of prosperity, due to fair 

 crops, and an advance in the price of farm prod- 

 ucts approximately corresponding to the advance 

 in the price of land. Farm labor has been fully 

 employed and at increased wages; and many 

 farm hands have become tenants and many ten- 

 ants have become landowners. 



There is marked improvement, in many of the 

 agricultural regions, in the character of the farm 



