. Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada. tee ownership which accompanies specu-lation is shown by the increase of tenancies. According tothe census figures, there were 37 tenant-operated farms in each 100farms in the United States in 1910 as compared with 28 in 1890. The kind of tenancy created under the United States systemappears to be socially and economically unsound. The United StatesCommissioner on Industrial Relations reported in 1915: Badly housed, ill-nourished, uneducated and hopeless, thesetenants continue year after year to eke out a bar
. Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada. tee ownership which accompanies specu-lation is shown by the increase of tenancies. According tothe census figures, there were 37 tenant-operated farms in each 100farms in the United States in 1910 as compared with 28 in 1890. The kind of tenancy created under the United States systemappears to be socially and economically unsound. The United StatesCommissioner on Industrial Relations reported in 1915: Badly housed, ill-nourished, uneducated and hopeless, thesetenants continue year after year to eke out a bare living, moving fre-quently from one farm to another in the hope that something willturn up. Here we have the curious anomaly of increasing poverty amongfarmers side by side with increasing values of farms. There is muchto be said in favour of tenancy when the tenant holds under a systemof leasehold directly from the Crown, but tenancy under a speculativeand absentee landlord system is indefensible. Monthly Crop Report, United States Dept. of Agriculture, April 16, 1016. Plate XI. BAD SUBURBAN CONDITIONS Unhealthy conditions in a rural district outside Ottawa where there are hundreds of acres of fertile land lying idle because of injurious speculation. Much of the land is adaptable, with drainage, for intensive culture, but quite unsuitable for dwellings.
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