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and the arts of refinement. It will enable him to hire help so that the 

 members of his family are not drudges, but have time for social pleasures 

 at the same time that they are not given up to society as an end of life. 

 He is not isolated as are the growers of grain or stock. Five acres of 

 orchard will produce as much wealth as 160 acres of corn. This means 

 that 32 families of fruit growers can live and prosper on the same area 

 as one family of corn growers. This makes a dense population possible. 



A dense population, living in comfort, but not in the luxury of un- 

 earned wealth; with money in the bank, with modern conveniences about 

 the premises, is a new type. They will have music, books, pictures, and 

 entertainments that equal those of the inhabitants of the city. In fact, 

 they are within easy reach of the city and attend the same entertain- 

 ments. They belong to the musical clubs, literary societies, and social 

 sets that meet in the city. Yet they are not wholly given over to society. 

 They live for a purpose; they are up in the morning, breathing the 

 aroma of the flowers, inhaling the pure fresh air, hearing the hum of 

 the bees, the song of the birds and developing physicial strength by 

 physical exercise. 



The old type of farmer was also up in the morning; in fact, he was 

 up earlier than our modern farmer, so early that no member of his 

 family had sleep enough, but dragged themselves from their beds, sluggish 

 and dull, to perform the long tasks of the long day of drudgery, unbroken 

 by reading or amusement. The result was that his children left the 

 farm in disgust as soon as they reached their majority, if not before. 

 Under the old conditions, it was not possible to live on the farm and be 

 in touch with the intellectual and social conditions of city life. 



Now the new farmer has rural free delivery of mails, telephones, in 

 many cases interurban car lines and easy access to all that the city 

 affords. 



MONEY NECESSARY. 



Senator Elkins said in an address not long since, that "Money is an 

 order on the world for what you want." Very well, then we educate 

 our children and education creates wants. We must have money to supply 

 these wants or there is discontent. To the average farmer, the net income 

 from the farm is not enough to supply the wants of an educated popula- 

 tion. This is true in New England and most of the eastern states. We 

 have heard people deplore the influx of ignorant foreigners to America, 

 but if these ignorant foreigners with the simple tastes and habits of the 

 peasant life of Europe did not occupy these farms they would be left 

 unoccupied, for educated Americans will not do it. A New York farmer 

 expressed it as follows: "The trusts fix the prices on everything we buy 

 and everything we sell. The labor unions fix the prices of labor. I 

 can not afford to pay the prices demanded by labor and take the prices 

 for products fixed by the trusts. Therefore, I let my land lie idle rather 

 than run it at a loss." A peasant farmer of Europe could run it, make 

 a living for himself and a little something for the owner. But In the 

 fruit growing regions of the Northwest, nature yields so abundantly in 



