The trends in rural population shifting for the decade 1920-30 became known through the publications of the Census Bureau during the year, and two significant facts were that rural non-farm population increased greatly within the decade, and migration from the cities to the country became larger than the reverse movement within the year previous to the taking of the census. During the year 1931, prices for farm products declined to exceedingly low level. In turn, lacking money to spend, the farm people resorted to their own initiative in community activities and family life. Such self-reliance in community and family affairs indicates a psychological change on the part of rural people in that they have turned to rural life for their satisfactions rather than continued dependence on the cities. Two events that indicate trends respecting rural life were discussions on rural government at the meeting of the American Country Life Association and the work of the Committee on Farm and Village Housing of the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership.