RECORD 

 YIELD3 



While many elements enter into this problem, 

 only a little common sense and practical knowl- 

 edge are needed to fix profitable standards, and 

 it would bring great benefits. A standard would 

 differ materially from an average. All averages 

 are misleading, especially those shown by the cen- 

 sus, and unless you use brains and raise more 

 than the average, you will make but a bare living, 

 though comfort and even luxury are easily within 

 your reach. 



It would be easy to get a lot of unverified 

 newspaper clippings about astonishing harvests, 

 and profits like the ghost stories in the mining ad- 

 vertisements. But the records given here have 

 been investigated by the writers or else rest upon 

 unimpeached authority, which we quote. Un- 

 questionably they are not the best ever, and pos- 

 sibly some errors will remain ; but they are given 

 in the belief that they will bring out many better 

 records, and perhaps some corrections. 



However, the record that interests you the 

 most, is the record of what you can get and how. 



The old way of getting a bare living from 

 much land and great labor has no attraction for 



