CHAPTER II 



THE HUNTING OF THE LAND 



THE location of the farm for this experiment 

 was of the utmost importance. The land must 

 be within reasonable distance of the city and 

 near a railroad, consequently within easy touch 

 of the market ; and if possible it must be near a 

 thriving village, to insure good train service. As 

 to size, I was somewhat uncertain ; my minimum 

 limit was 150 acres and 400 the maximum. The 

 land must be fertile, or capable of being made 

 so. 



I advertised for a farm of from two hundred 

 to four hundred acres, within thirty-five miles of 

 town, and convenient to a good line of transpor- 

 tation. Fifty-seven replies came, of which forty- 

 six were impossible, eleven worth a second 

 reading, and five worth investigating. My third 

 trip carried me thirty miles southwest of the 

 city, to a village almost wholly made up of 

 wealthy people who did business in town, and 

 who had their permanent or their summer homes 

 in this village. There were probably twenty- 

 seven or twenty-eight hundred people in the 

 village, most of whom owned estates of from 



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