Speech #650189206

I want to say that. in some instances the reason the farmer has mortgaged his lund is that lie buys more land. There are perhaps many such instances: When a farmer is prosperous and is able to pay off the mortgage on the land he owns lie may buy more. but I wish to say to the Senator froi New Iainpshireand I say it with a fair knowledge of the sit ationthat I think the farmers in my Stateand I think my colleague will c.5roborate my statementknow that it does not pay to farm on a large scale. Instead of the farms growing larger. in many instances they are growing smaller. and they would be much smaller than .they are today were it n6t for the fact that immigration has been stopped. that capital has not flowed into our State as it should. and that many of our people have gone across the border into Canada. Some 200.000 people have gone from this country into Canada in order to get free homes. That of itself shows that those farmers were not prosperous. because the farmer. like every other American citizen. loves his home. and he will not abandon it if it is possible for him to make a decent living.