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Constitution. Now we are here drafting a new Constitution,

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and we are caught between these two poles, the one is the

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farmer who wants to stay on his farm who is beset by all of

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these problems. On the other hand we have the land

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speculator. You find him in the counties near Washington

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where they are buying up this property and holding it for

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what they call farms. Sometimes they don't even go through

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the attempt to make it look like a farm or act like a farm,

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but they are getting, under the benefit of that decision,

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the agricultural assessment.

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Now, what we are trying to do is this. We don't

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believe one definition is enough. The State Bureau of

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Assessments has set up criteria which at this moment number

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about 31. It is not as the Hanson amendment would give you

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"property owned and operated." Sometimes the property is

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owned bv a bona fide farmer and there is a death, and it

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may be three years while the estate is being settled; nobody

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is operating the farm and under his amendment it falls into

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the other classification and the farming assessment is gone.

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What is a bona fide farmer? This requires

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definition. In order to give it a definition, the Bureau of