CHAPTER XV 



THE PROFESSION OF FARMING 



Agriculture, Past and Future The Average Farmer The 

 Boy and the Garden The Trained Farmer Salaries 

 Await Him Fresh Discoveries Fields for Investigation 

 Grown from the Best The Profit of the Earth Mo- 

 nopoly Conditions The Value of the Farm How to 

 Proceed The Aim of This Book. 



AGRICULTURE has been neglected as a 

 *""*> profession because of the isolation of the 

 farmer forced to low priced land at a distance 

 from those with whom he must trade ; the bright 

 boys will not stay for such a life as that, so they 

 go to the cities, leaving stagnation behind them. 



The future of farming lies with our boys. 

 Whether it shall become the chosen calling of 

 specially trained young men with all the added 

 dignity that such training could bring to it, or 

 remain what it has hitherto been, concerns them 

 even more than us. 



Although tilling the soil is the oldest occupa- 



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