CHAPTER I 



LIFE, NOT MERELY MAKING A LIVING 



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 Inten- 

 sive Farming Trucking Dairying How They Do in 

 Japan Denmark Jersey We Can Do Better. 



WHEN a goose goes under an arch she 

 ducks her head; that is not because there 

 is not space for her, but because she thinks there 

 is not, and that is because she is a goose. Perhaps 

 she does not see very clearly what is above her. 



But we can hold up our heads if we will; it 

 is only necessary to look and think. Many of 

 us believe we had no chance in life. Others were 

 in at the oil excitement or the natural gas boom 

 or got in with the trolley development or a mine 

 discovery, or found some good opening; but we 

 have never seen any opportunity. 



Well, we have our chance now. A new boom 

 is on, the farm land boom ; a new development is 

 beginning, intensive agriculture; a new discov- 



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