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Content: Frequently these persons buy a few acres along the road and build a new house. Sometimes they buy a farm, occupy the farmhouse, and rent the land to a neighboring farmer. In neither instance could the movement of this city family into the country be considered as in any way restoring 'farm' population." There is another group, however, that does not share Secretary Jardine's fear of a future food shortage and an era of high prices because of the trek to town of a portion of the farm population. Under the circumstances, they affirm, this is the best thing that, could happen for the farmers remaining on the soil. The transfer not only reduces competition in producing farm crops, but increases the number of purchasers of farm products. This is the attitude of the Syracuse Post-Standard, and to the Council Bluffs Nonpareil "it is entirely probable that our immediate farm problem may be worked out eventually by this very decrease in farm population." Says this Iowa paper: "If the number of persons on the farms continues to decrease, and the total population of the country continues to increase, there soon will be so many demanding products of the farm and so few furnishing them that the prices for farm products will rise. Good prices on the farm will bring the householders back there."