It is also easy to see the effect a sharp cutback in farm family numbers would have on obtaining. or retaining. such professionals as doctors. dentists. pharmacists. and lawyers. Experience shows. in areas where corporations have moved in. that one of the first moves made by farm managers is to tear down farm buildings to cut real estate taxes. Then they truck in seed. fertilizer. and other inputs purchased direct from manufacturers to avoid buying locally at retail. they import migrant farm laborers on an intermittent basis to cut labor costs. and they bypass the local farm supply and marketing cooperatives. The surviving farmers and small town merchants are left to pay the social costs. Probably the best exising study of this problem was published in 1946-"Small Business and the Community Effects of Scale of Farm Operations." December 1946.