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1. The prosperity of the country is fundamental to the pros- 

 perity of the city. City people have come to realize this, and are 

 accordingly interested. 



2. City people have come to look to the country as a possible 

 field in which to seek a livelihood ; and, further, the vast increase 

 in the number of country homes has engendered an interest on the 

 part of their owners in making these estates pay for at least a part 

 of their upkeep. 



The interest of city people in agriculture at first showed many 

 of the characteristics of a passing fad. City people were devoting 



Fig. 572. — Potato Field of H. F. Horton, Si'epiientown, Kensselaer 

 'CouxTY, N. Y. Foliage in Perfect Condition as a Result of 

 Intelligent Fertilization and Cultivation, Followed by 

 Thorough and Timely Spraying for Bugs and Blight 



energy to movements for rural uplift without intimate acquaint- 

 ance with rural affairs and without actual contact with rural life. 

 Hundreds of city people were ready to plunge blindly into farm- 

 ing in order to make a living, little realizing that agriculture is 

 as complex and difficult as other occupations and that it requires 

 as much of intelligence, energy, and experience as other lines of 

 business. More recently the faddists have dropped out in a per- 

 fectly normal way, and " rural uplift " has ceased to be a treat- 

 ment that might be applied with a brush and has become a 

 cooperation based on mutual intimacy and mutual understanding. 

 Vegetable gardening has been especially interesting to city 



