I need not belabor the point that 100 family farms are better customers than 10 industrial farming units on the same land. What is not so clearly understood is that if we allow these family farmers to be driven from their land into the city. we have not solved the problem of financing their existence. Industry has been absorbing rural migrants just about as fast as it can at its present rate of expansion. A reduction in the number of its rural customers is not going to increase the rate of industrial expansion. If the migration to the cities increases. is it not inevitable that the newcomers will either displace existing workers or go on direct relief?
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