NEW YORK STATE.
/FARM POPULATION DECLINES. DROP OF 10,000’ LAST YEAR. Farm population in New York State, America, including entire families, declined from 733,000 to 723,000’ during ”1925, according to figures made public by G. F. Warden, of the New York State College of Agriculture. Mr Warren drew his statistics 'from a survey of 4384' farms;
During the year ending February 1, <11126, about 30,000 mem and boys, left farming to ta.ke up other work and .about 12,50’0' left -other occupations to go farming. '
“At the present time,’’ the report s'ays, “there are only about 25,800 hired men on farms, compared with 26,700 a year ago, and with 77,000 tn 1916. Farmers are more and more getting their work, done by the uise of mechanical power, such as tractoijs, .trucks, etc., and. by exchanging work with their neighbours.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4961, 12 April 1926, Page 4
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138NEW YORK STATE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4961, 12 April 1926, Page 4
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