The Agricultural Situation, Vol. 34: September 1950 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Agricultural Situation, Vol. 34: September 1950 (Classic Reprint) written by U. S. Bureau Of Agricultural Economics and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Agricultural Situation, Vol. 34: September 1950 The rise in prices of farm products and the wartime need for increased supplies provided the incentives for-all out production. Farmers drew heavily on the-backlog of improved productionpractices that had been developed dur ing the interwar years. The weather was favorable and agricultural output soared. By 1942, the first year after Pearl Harbor, the output of farm products was'28 percent higher than the 1935 - 39 average and a sixth higher than in 1940. Output stayed near the 1942 level through 194-5, even though work ers were leaving the farms to enter the armed services or take jobs in the city. In 1942, farm employment was 5 per cent lower than the prewar average; in 1945 it was 10 percent lower. Farm operators made up for the. Loss of workers by putting in longer hours themselves, and by using family work ers more fully. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.