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AND A LIVING 



given area will be doing mankind a service that 

 will not be reckoned lightly. 



The new agriculture is only in its infancy and 

 the demand for farmers who can do what was 

 once thought impossible is growing daily. The 

 farmer who is content to go along in the old rut, 

 adding acre to acre and merely scratching the 

 surface of each, is as sure to be left behind in the 

 race as the merchant who prefers sailing vessels 

 to steamers, and who declines to use the tele- 

 phone. 



That is why farming offers such an opportu- 

 nity to the trained young man or woman. There 

 are few plums in the law compared with the 

 many aspirants; the supply of physicians is al- 

 ready in excess of the world's real needs; there 

 are more ministers living on insufficient incomes 

 than are enjoying comfortable salaries, the aver- 

 age being less than $450 per year; there are few 

 paying professorship for the educationalists: 

 and even where opportunities in these lines do 

 exist, they are accompanied by serious drawbacks 

 such as boards of government, or political in- 

 trigue. But the farmer is independent. People 



