287 THE PROFESSION 



OF FARMING 



present position. Then as you get skill and ex- 

 perience you can give it your whole time and will 

 not be helpless, if, for any reason, you lose your 

 job. 



To show what has been done and what can be 

 done on small areas ; that the life of the farmer, 

 now so laborious and unprofitable, offers the 

 widest opportunities for success under new meth- 

 ods, is the object of this book. If it help any to 

 take up the pursuit of agriculture as a business, 

 if it draw even a few from the crowded, un- 

 healthful life of the city tenement, to the free, 

 health-giving life of the fields and gardens, if it 

 afford a ray of hope to the discouraged toiler, it 

 will have accomplished its purpose and fully re- 

 paid its author. 



