271 THE PROFESSION 



OF FARMING 



get money with which to buy more land for 

 what? To raise more corn for what? To feed 

 more hogs for what? To buy more land. And 

 why does he want more land? Why, he wishes to 

 raise more corn, to feed more hogs. And in this 

 circle he moves until the Almighty stops his hog- 

 gish proceedings.' 



" But in my judgment, working early and late 

 to raise more corn, to feed more hogs, in order to 

 buy more land, is not farming, but speculation. 

 The great fault of American agriculture is too 

 much land." 



That is passing away and the farmer is learn- 

 ing that the small farm near the town is the 

 money maker. 



So far as farming is concerned, big-scale pro- 

 duction is not increasing, but the opposite. For 

 better transportation, better culivation, and above 

 all, better education is changing farm life. Now 

 we must make the land attractive to the boys so 

 that they shall not go "back to the land," but 

 will never leave it. 



Children brought up in city tenements tend to 

 become sickly and vicious, whereas on the farm 



