The old Farm Security Administration. in New Deal days. attempted to stem that flow with a program of buying and subdividing plantations into familyfarm units. or into cooperative farms. But that effort was hampered and undercut by charges that it was socialistic. In the southwest. the old estancia is now a corporate farm. until very recently dependent on migrant and foreign workers who were paid low wages to do the work that peons once performed. These giant farms are still in the throes of adjustment to a more acceptable employeremployee relationship. searching out low wage labor. fighting off unionization. and mechanizing operations on an emergency basis to avoid sale and subdivision into smaller farms. Our new ability to mechanize farming operations of every kind. from plowing in 60foot widths to picking tomatoes. and the inability of family farmers to lift prices for their commodities beyond 1947 levels so they will be adequate to meet rising production costs and living costs on a moderatesize holding. has resulted in massive consolidations of farms.