Excerpt from Interstate Migration, Vol. 10: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens, House of Representatives, Seventy-Sixth Congress, Third Session; Washington Hearings, December 11, 1940, and February 26, 1941
I think that another factor, of course, which you gentlemen have considered is the rapid mechanization in agricultural production which started with the introduction of the gasoline engine, tractors, trucks, and so forth, getting its real impetus after the last war, which probably has taken some thirty-five million acres of land that used to grow feed for horses and mules and turned it over to the oil fields, as a matter of fact.
And in more recent years the development of mechanized farm equipment which fits every size of farm.
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