FOREWORD 13 



friends, while the telephone has wiped distance from 

 the map. 



In the modern farm kitchen hot and cold water 

 gushes from bright nickel taps into a clean white 

 enamel sink, thanks to the pneumatic water supply 

 system. The house and other farm buildings are lighted 

 by electricity and perhaps the little farm power plant 

 manages to operate some machinery to drive the 

 washing machine, the cream separator, the churn 

 and the fodder-cutter or fanning-mill. There is also a 

 little blacksmith shop and a carpenter shop where 

 repairs can be attended to without delay. True, all 

 these desirable conveniences may not be possessed gen- 

 erally as yet; but the Farmer has seen them working 

 on the model farmstead exhibited by the Government 

 at the Big Fair or in the Farm Mechanics car of the 

 Better Farming Special Trains that have toured the 

 country, and he dreams aftout th^ny 

 ^More scientific methods of agriculture have been 

 adopted.^ The Farmer has learned what may be accom- 

 plished by crop rotations and new methods of cultiva- 

 tion. He has learned to analyze the soil and grow upon 

 his land those crops for which it is best suited. If he 

 keeps a dairy herd he tests each cow and knows exactly 

 how her yield is progressing so that it is impossible for 

 her to " beat her board bill." No longer is it even con- 

 sidered good form to chop the head off the old rooster ; 

 the Farmer sticks him scientifically, painlessly, instan- 

 taneously dressing him for market in the manner that 

 commands the highest price. So with the butter, the 

 eggs and all the rest of the farm products. 



Do you wonder that the great evolution of farming 

 methods should lead to advanced thought upon the 

 issues of the day ? In the living room the Family Bible 



