83 LIFE, NOT MERELY 



MAKING A LIVING 



cow, $700 produce to the acre, not seven acres 

 to the hundred dollars produce ; four truck crops 

 to the acre, not four acres to the truck crop 

 these are the methods that pay. 



This is no "pipe dream" nor experiment. 

 Japan shows us communities living off little 

 patches of land of two and a half acres to the 

 family. Denmark is a country of prosperous 

 little farms. The Island of Jersey in the Eng- 

 lish Channel is about eight miles average length, 

 and less than six miles wide, about the size of 

 Staten Island, in New York Harbor; high rocky 

 cliffs bound its coast on the north and west. Its 

 agriculture sustains its 60,000 inhabitants, more 

 than three to the acre of arable land, which is in 

 the hands of about 2500 owners, who get a yearly 

 rental of $50 to $100 per acre. The soil is not 

 very fertile, but its productiveness is enhanced by 

 mildness of climate. The holdings vary from 

 three to thirty acres, and herds of more than a 

 dozen cows are very rare; land and grass are so 

 valuable that cattle are never permitted to roam 

 at large, but are all tethered and are moved sev- 

 eral times a day. They are always led by women 



