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things are done at a disadvantage and loss until 

 hope for better things almost or quite fades away. 



The experience of our New England fore- 

 fathers was a beautiful illustration of the point we 

 wish to make. They were principally farmers on 

 a modest scale, they did not make much each 

 year, but every year found their holdings and 

 conditions slightly improved because of the safe 

 and sure methods and contentment and happiness 

 pervaded every home. 



Many thousand dollars have in the past been 

 loaned for our western development by individual 

 New England farmers, who started on 60, 80 or 

 100 acres of timbered land with little capital out- 

 side of a strong physique and ample energy, but 

 from the start a little was added every year until 

 there was a surplus. 



Not that we would go back to the old narrow, 

 modest routine grind of our forefathers, but be- 

 fore any country, state or section can be on a 

 stable, prosperous basis, gambling and extreme 

 uncertainty of success must be very largely 

 eliminated, and one of the heavy screws in the 

 balance wheel to this question is, to prevent crop 

 failure or even a small crop, and it is the ease 

 with which we believe this can be done by tillage 

 of the right kind at the proper time that prompts 

 us to beckon the man of modest means to the new 

 semi-humid west, and to say to those who are 

 now located in this great belt, "Eureka". 



Don't misunderstand us. We wish our reader 

 to look the situation squarely in the face and then 

 no matter who you are or where you are, you will 



