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meet, let alone two?" The answer seems to be 

 first, that most farmers are really speculating in 

 land; that few fanners know much about farm- 

 ing; and, finally and principally, that the farmer 

 is pushed out by the high speculative prices of 

 land to places where he ought not to be, and be- 

 ing, cannot succeed. 



It might well be that some of the cultivators 

 themselves were too enthusiastic about the re- 

 sults of their labors, but we will find that other 

 facts cannot be explained if the returns were 

 less than those stated. There is a story of an 

 old Irish woman who was getting her mistress to 

 write home for her. She dictated : " Oi get mate 

 for me dinner onct a wake." " Why, Bridget," 

 said the lady, " you get it every day." " Ah, yer 

 leddyship, sure they'd never belave that at all, 

 at all." That is like our four dollars it was 

 all of the truth that the public knew enough to 

 believe. 



T. B. Galloway, Chief of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry at Washington, calculates that where 

 a man can sell his own crop of miscellaneous 

 vegetables grown on five acres, his investment 



