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the result if he should divide his business into eight 

 stores and place them under as many separate 

 owners. Without hesitation he answered: " We 

 would all live on half rations or fail." So it is in 

 farming: if for no other reason, economy of effort 

 forbids cutting the land into holdings the size of 

 those in the Isle of Jersey and of some portions of 

 France. This is the day of energy, other than 

 that contained in muscle and he who pits his mere 

 physical powers against horse, steam and electric- 

 ity must fall far behind and be content with little. 

 But small as well as large farms have their place 

 in a country so diversified in agricultural produc- 

 tions and wants as is America. 



THE SOUTH : 



As I was bidding Mrs. Roberts goodby on leav- 

 ing for my summer in Europe I remarked that I 

 supposed it was my duty to go to Europe but I 

 would much prefer to go to New Orleans. From 

 my boyhood this Southern city had taken a hold 

 on my imagination. When I was just a little lad 

 one night when stories were being related around 

 the fireside someone told this one: 



"Once on a time a grocer purchased a barrel of 

 New Orleans molasses. After he had sold a part of it 

 the molasses ceased to run. Knowing that the barrel 



