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...nation's small farmers have been slowly abandoning the land for the cities. Now, in an experiment, the Office of Economic Opportunity in Oklahoma has begun a homesteading program that will initially settle 300 families, many of them urban welfare clients, on wooded ten-acre farms near Stringtown. This month the first families will begin moving in. Each will receive a chain saw with which to clear the land, then will sell the timber in order to begin paying for the land at $80 an acre. Within three or four years, the homesteaders should be harvesting regular fruit crops...
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