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may not be exact, noting: “Extension Service agents in Virginia were unable to identify the nationality of 75 persons in the Commonwealth who became new farm owners during the survey period.”
Personnel of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service had also joined in checking local land records to compile the data, subsequently analyzed by USDA officials in Washington.
On a nationwide basis, the USDA study showed that 826,543 acres of U. S. farmlands were purchased by
92.9%