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though I were looking on at something that 

 might have happened a century ago. 



"You might as well make it forty centuries, 

 while you're about it," he said. "Except that 

 their tools are made of iron and steel, instead 

 of wood and stone, the work of the farmers 

 hasn't changed much in that time. I'm not 

 hopeless about it, though. We're getting hold 

 of the youngsters, a few at a time. They're 

 learning; and when they go to farming they'll 

 teach the others better than we can. It'll come 

 out all right in the end." 



But we didn't want to wait for the end. So 

 bit by bit through that summer, as we had seen 

 our house plans grow through the years, a plan 

 was made for the farm. We have stuck to 

 that plan. Some of the details have changed 

 from time to time, as our understanding has 

 been broadened by experience ; but the idea re- 

 mains to-day as it was six years ago. 



The essence of it is this: First of all, the 

 farm must furnish food for our own table 

 not in a roundabout way, mind you, but di- 

 rectly. Ninety per cent, of the farmers in our 

 neighborhood were supplying their tables from 

 the "store" buying canned stuff, buying flour 

 and meal and potatoes and salt meat, buying 



