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AND A LIVING 



chinery,' meant an axe, a hoe, and a log cabin, all 

 of which were easy of individual production and 

 ownership. To-day, 'necessary machinery' 

 means a combined reaper and harvester, made by 

 a one-hundred-million-dollar trust, a one-hun- 

 dred-million-dollar railway to haul the wheat to 

 market, a million-dollar elevator to unload it, and 

 a million-dollar mill to grind it into flour, and 

 finally a hundred-million-dollar trust to bake it 

 into biscuits for all America." (Wilshire's Edi- 

 torials, page 210.) 



But the Vacant Lot Gardens show that even 

 to-day available land only and not capital is 

 necessary to make a living, and that any person 

 who can get a bit of land can succeed upon it if 

 he will work with his head as well as his hands. 



