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<br />> <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />farms. homes, and businesses and unemployment are held to <br /> <br /> <br />a minimum, while purchasing power and business volUJ:le are <br /> <br /> <br />relatively greater than elsewhere in the State. Strength <br /> <br /> <br />at the local level in the business cycle is reflected and <br /> <br /> <br />multip::'ied throughout the nation11ide routes of commerce through <br /> <br /> <br />which flow the autos, trucks, tractors, fertilizers, machinery, <br /> <br /> <br />chemicals, clothing, fuel, furniture. building materials, and <br /> <br /> <br />food which the farmer requires. <br /> <br /> <br />These farmers replace about 10 percent of their <br /> <br /> <br />$40 million equipment inventory each year. Four million <br /> <br /> <br />dollars courses through the channels of trade to purchase <br /> <br /> <br />these tractors, automobiles, trucks, farm machirery, equipment. <br /> <br /> <br />and supplies. In addition, more than a million dollars is <br /> <br /> <br />normally spent for the maintenance of buildings ar.d fences <br /> <br /> <br />on the fauIls. Paint, lumber, nails, wire, and tools are <br /> <br /> <br />needed from all parts of the country. Expenditures for seed. <br /> <br /> <br />fertilizem, petroleum products, mac.'1ine hire, labor, feed, <br /> <br /> <br />and livestock purchases aggregate about $39 million. These <br /> <br /> <br />necessaljr farm expenses of approximately $50 million annually <br /> <br /> <br />are tho fCllmdation upon which sane 1,800 business men and <br /> <br /> <br />merchants have built their own trades and service establishments. <br /> <br /> <br />Thus the economic return to many persons frQlIl agri- <br /> <br /> <br />culture CODes not from the value of the commodities pI'oduced <br /> <br /> <br />but from the various goods and services that the farmere and <br /> <br /> <br />farm worke::,s require. <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />,1 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />i. <br /> <br />29 <br />