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ing civilization, and therefore inevitable. At the same time, in 

 the wisdom which has ordained that man shall earn his bread by 

 the sweat of his brow, it is established that there has been, is, and 

 always will be, two conditions, the only limitations being the skill 

 and intelligence of the individual — one is that of production and 

 the other that of cost of production. The farmer faces these two 

 unknown quantities, and the higher he reaches in output and 

 quality, and the deeper he digs into the mysteries of food nutri- 

 ents and food combinations, the surer and the greater will be his 

 measure of profit, in all the years to come. It will be the putting 

 together of the fragments here and there which will lead to better 

 knowledge and therefore better methods, and again we are forced 

 back upon this business proposition which lies very close at the 

 root of the whole question. Greater skill comes only as the result 

 of keener insight and more knowledge. These are not to be 

 obtained save as one grows into an intimate acquaintance with 

 the laws and conditions governing, seeks patiently to learn their 

 relation to each other and the part each bears to the whole, and 

 out of well-balanced judgment and experience applies this knowl- 

 edge in the daily walks of life. This is the man who will always 

 be master of the situation. 



