The Story of a New Way to Family Security

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Excerpt from The Story of a New Way to Family Security: Light From the CityAccording to the same authority, meat clubs have been growing in number, a heavier canning and pre serving program is being carried out, bread-baking, churning, cheese-making and other home food-pro duction activities have been revived, home sewing has increased greatly, and on some farms where sheep are raised, skills and equipment little used for many years are being called upon to convert home-grown wool into clothing and bed coverings, soap-making for family use has increased, farm-produced fuel is being used more freely, lumber made from the farm' wood-lot is being used for repairs to the house and for furniture-making. The movement toward subsistence farming is receiving extraordinary official recognition and support. President Roosevelt ¿atly and frankly announces as a major policyof his administration and as a primary purpose of his life to put into efiect a back-to-t/ae-land movement that will work. There is a necessary limit, he said early in 1930, to the con tinuance of the migration from the country to the city, and I look, in fact, for a swing of the pendulum in the other direction. All things point that way.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.