Excerpts: This book describes an effort to improve land tenure in the United States. It tells how the Federal Government has helped aspiring farm tenants to acquire a stake in the land and become stable stockholders in our democracy; how disadvantaged but industrious farmers have been enabled to overcome the handicaps of poverty inevitably associated with inadequate farms; and how good citizenship has been nurtured where incentive for good citizen- ship has been lacking. It deals with an effort to attain and preserve in our country a relationship between people and land that is consistent with the general welfare. It tells how an important public undertaking has been conceived, planned, and executed in a free democracy. It explores the possibilities of greater achievement through the expansion of that undertaking. The Congress wisely provided that the Farm Ownership program authorized by the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937 should first be tried out in a small way to see how it would work. An appraisal of results now seems warranted. The chief end sought has been the successful operation of their own farms by worthy families. The chief device for achieving that end has been supervised credit. There is an evident need for a more comprehensive treatise on the Farm Ownership program than is presently available. Agricultural leaders, farm policy makers, legislators, farmers and all who work with them should benefit by the facts that are here presented. ". . . the land is mine . . ." begins with the story of the passage of the Farm Tenant Act and the need for such legislation. It then tells how an organization was created and how policies were formulated to carry out that act. Subsequently, it discusses getting deserving families established on the right kind of farms and engaged in the right kind of farming. It lists and describes the distinctive features of Farm Ownership loans; defines and discusses family farms and supervised credit; documents borrower progress; reviews a survey of the attitude of borrowers toward supervision; and sets forth the role of State and county committees in making loans and working with borrowers. The concluding chapter evaluates achievements and looks to the future.