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AND A LIVING 



bearing condition to which the land has been 

 brought " could be reproduced for. 



So it will pay us better to hire or buy an acre 

 or two, worth a thousand dollars, near the mar- 

 ket, than a farm for fifty dollars an acre far 

 from the market. It saves capital, increases re- 

 turns, lessens risks, and facilitates education to 

 be near the city on a little bit of earth, for it can 

 be rented without a fortune, worked without 

 buildings, and its product can be sold without 

 delay. In primitive times when we had virgin soil 

 which cost little or nothing, a more evenly dis- 

 tributed population and little foreign competi- 

 tion, the farmer could get "independent rich" 

 raising varied crops on a large area. To-day, 

 with the high price of farm lands and the con- 

 trol of the markets by the railroads, which will 

 often haul freight to New York from Chicago 

 as cheaply as from Albany, it is well nigh im- 

 possible to get more than a living that way 



Intensive farming, intensive trucking, inten- 

 sive dairying, and specializing are the up-to-date 

 methods that promise sure and good returns. 



Three cows to the acre, not three acres to the 



