Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and ChangeThomas R. Ford |
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... million people left the farm population in an unprecedented outpouring . The number of people on farms dropped from 30.5 million to 24.4 million . Although there was some return to farms in the year after the war , the exodus soon ...
... million people left the farm population in an unprecedented outpouring . The number of people on farms dropped from 30.5 million to 24.4 million . Although there was some return to farms in the year after the war , the exodus soon ...
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... million horses and mules were counted as compared with 246,000 tractors . Ten years later in 1930 the number of work animals had decreased to just over 19 million a loss of almost 700,000 per year - while tractors had increased to ...
... million horses and mules were counted as compared with 246,000 tractors . Ten years later in 1930 the number of work animals had decreased to just over 19 million a loss of almost 700,000 per year - while tractors had increased to ...
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... million farms were counted in the United States . By 1974 considerably less than 3 million farms ( 2,820,570 ) remained in the nation . This represents a drop of around 70,000 farms a year during the past half - century , an ...
... million farms were counted in the United States . By 1974 considerably less than 3 million farms ( 2,820,570 ) remained in the nation . This represents a drop of around 70,000 farms a year during the past half - century , an ...
Contents
Quality and Conflicts in Land | 19 |
People on the Land | 37 |
The Changing Character of the Nonmetropolitan | 55 |
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