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* A LITTLE LAND AND A LIVING " . . . . Frontispiece 



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THE LETTER THAT PROMPTED THIS BOOK WRITTEN 



To THE AUTHOR BY WILLIAM BORSODI . 17 



A Many-Sided Problem of International Scope How 

 Poverty, Insanity, Vice, Might Have Been Pre- 

 vented Objections to the Cry " Back to the Farm " 

 You Show How to Make Farm Life Pay Does the 

 City Give Comfort? The Curse of "Credit" 

 Where " Home " is Not " Sweet Home " No 

 " Sweetness and Light " Here " Oh, the Cold and 

 Cruel Winter " Waiting for Jobs That Do Not 

 Come " The Bread Line " and Other Lines The 

 Misery Seen in Missions " Three Acres " Would 

 Mean " Liberty " City Amusements and Other " El&- 

 vating " Things Statistics That Give False Impres- 

 sions The Improvidency of the Poor Dire Neces- 

 sity " The Great White Way " as Seen by Rich 

 and Poor The Dance Halls and the Street No 

 Real Suffering and Destitution on Farms The 

 Educated and Inexperienced Adapted for Agri- 

 culture Scope for " Knowledge Learned of Schools " 

 Toil and Payment of Farm Life The World's 

 Ideal Farming Country Agriculture's Golden Age 

 Independence in Agriculture Land Enough for a 

 Living One Point of Honest Difference Who 

 Should Go Back to the Farms? Who Would Benefit 

 by Such a Movement? Semi- Agricultural Colonies 

 Other Letters from Railroad Men A Pleasing Ten- 

 dency What I have Done Write a New Book 

 The Cause and the Remedy Foreigners Live More 

 Cheaply Concerted Action Necessary Many Men of 

 Many Minds The Real Hope. 



CHAPTER I 

 LIFE, NOT MERELY MAKING A LIVING .... 77 



Opportunities Past and Present Chances Lost 

 New Chance Intelligence Slums a Symptom The 

 Origin of Wealth Capital An Acre Enough 

 Possibilities Thoroughness Available Land New 

 Methods Intensive Farming Trucking Dairying 

 How They Do in Japan Denmark Jersey We 

 Can Do Better. 



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