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which was made into his clothing. That jvas the farm of the 

 last century, but you, all of you, know, of course, that the 

 opening up of that wonderfully fertile land in our western 

 territories and states has completely changed the position 

 of the eastern farmer. Those immense farms of the west 

 producing their wheat, not by the acre, but by the thousands 

 of acres, have produced such a change that the farmer has 

 absolutely been forced to face an entire change of conditions 

 in his farming life. I think we can recognize two stages of 

 the farming life in our country in the past, and may clearly 

 see, I think, a third one which is rapidly coming. First, there 

 was a small individual independent farm and farmer who 

 raised everything that he needed. That was followed by a 

 tendency to make a great farm like our western ranges. Now 

 I think we can see that there is more or less of a change going 

 on in which again the small farm is coming to the front, but 

 not the small farm of our fathers. It is a small farm, but it 

 is a farm devoted to specialties, or as we sometimes say, in- 

 tensive farming. He will turn the whole land into raising 

 cucumbers, tom.atoes, or something else of that sort. A 

 specialty. And why shouldn't he? The Connecticut farmer 

 has a market right at his door. With the great city of New 

 York, a city that is rapidly becoming the largest city in the 

 world and asking for things from our farms, why should we 

 not furnish materials for that market, and take full advantage 

 of the situation instead of trying to compete on the lines that 

 our fathers competed when transportation was not so cheap 

 as it is now from the farms of the west. I remember a few 

 years ago there was a farmer visiting in the house next to 

 mine. I got into conversation with him, and I asked him 

 where he lived. He said that he lived within fifteen or twenty 

 miles of New York city. He was a farmer who was one of 

 these men who are groaning under the conditions of the day; 

 one of these men who says that farming is a dog's life, that 

 it does not pay and that you can't make a living at it. I asked 

 him what he raised on his farm, and he said he raised a little 

 corn and a little potatoes, and a little beef, and a little wheat, 

 and a little of that and a little of the other, just exactly as his 

 father and his grandfather and his great-grandfather did. I 

 said to him: " Did you ever try to raise something special 

 for the New York market?" 



