Volume 18 , Issue 25

1935 - U. S. Will Check Suitcase Farmers

On page 7, The Scranton Republican, dated 19 November 1935, Tuesday, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, reported: "U. S. Will Check Suitcase Farmers." Steps were being taken to curb movement.

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Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 18 (1935) - "Suitcase farmers," who leave a trail of eroded and ravaged soil, must halt their activities, Dr. L. C. Gray, national director of the land utilization program said on that date.

Dr. L. C. Gray said the "Suitcase farmer" was responsible for plowing up much range land that should never have been touched and made necessary the present government program. It seeks to conserve the soil of the agricultural lands of the middle west for the future and was undertaken by the rural resettlement administration.

"Suitcase farmers," Gray said, are tillers of the soil who plant large acreages of grazing and submarginal land to wheat when prices are high in the hope of making a large pro=fit in one year and then retire, leaving the land broken by unused.
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