Your Gra7idfather Read It^ 



Your Father Read It^ 



Are YOU Reading It? 



Buyin 

 the Farm 



'' What would you consider these places adjoining yours worth ?" 



" About |30 an acre." 



" That is, if you, as a local man, went to buy them you could get them at $30 an acre?" 



;; That's it." 



'I But if I, as an outsider, went to buy them ," 



" They'd probably size you up as from town, and ask you $80 to $100. I've known 



two or three places on this road where sales have been spoiled that way." 

 " Meanwhile they have been in the hands of tenants for thirty years and have gone 



back in value from |150 and $200 to $20 and 13) ." 



■' Vcs, it's that dog-in-the-manger policy that has hurt us." 



Here is land lying in one of the most beautiful and fertile valleys of the section 

 between the Hudson and Connecticut — a valley that used to be the seat of an old 

 colonial aristocracy, where most of the buildings could not be replaced now for less 

 than $20,000 or $30,000. 



If you have the least desire to own a bit of land of your own and think a farm 

 beyond the dreams of avarice, you should read the series of six articles by A. C. Laut 

 telling aboitt the bargains in old farms, on good roads, within a hundred miles of 

 New York City, that can be picked up at from $10 to $50 an acre. A thousami dol- 

 lars, actual cash, can finance a 25-acre unimproved farm purchase. 



A Living From the Farm 



Then, havinff the farm, if you want to know how 

 to live and to make a living out of it. read Back 

 to the Farm— Net, a five-part story of city dwellers 

 who took a chance iind made good in the country. 



The ;\'e/ is wliat they got out of it— what you can 

 get out of it: Instruction, health, comfort, content- 

 ment, and a heritage of health for the children. 



The money end of it? The author paints no irides- 

 cent rainbow but concludes that a good many will 

 succeed along a modest line of hard work, close per- 

 sonal attention, i)Ianning one thing at a time and 

 going ahead slowly, being on the jot) all the year 

 round. A better licino titan you yet in town and 

 a life more worth while. 



Dividends From the Farm 



For several je;us the Department of Agriculture, 

 through its field agents, lias tjeen experimenting 

 with various farms, witli the owners' co-operation, 

 along the lines of sjstcm and efficiency. We are 

 able to publish the results in a series of four arti- 

 cles, under the title Old Farms Made New. They 

 tell how to replan a farm for economy in time and 

 labor, as efficiency experts plan a factory. 



The difference is the difference between a defli'it 

 and dividends. 



If you actually become your own boss and work 

 at getting a living out of the land, there's no paper 

 in the world you need so much as 



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