10 LANDOLOGY 



FARMERS ARE AUTO OWNERS TODAY. The farmers are 



profiting by pres- 

 ent conditions. This is their inning, and the increasingly high cost 

 of living demands still more farmers all the time. The call is 

 world-wide for more people to till the land, because their products 

 are needed by a hungry hoard of consumers. 



For the first time in history the manufacturers, merchants, and 

 professional men are all sending their sons to agricultural colleges. 

 Farming has become a science because it has become profitable. As 

 a class the farmers are the most prosperous citizens in the country 

 today. Go wherever you will in the great farming states of 

 America and make inquiry in the average towns of ten thousand 

 population or less, and you will be told that it is a retired farmers' 

 town. As a rule, you will find it true that a great many of the 

 better citizens of the town who are living in the best homes are 

 people who, in middle life, retired from their farms and are now 

 living on their income. How many towns do you find made up 

 mostly of well-to-do retired grocers, factory workers, dentists or 

 doctors? None! 



Farmers today own over sixty per cent of the automobiles in 

 the states of the great middle west. How many bookkeepers, bank 

 clerks or factory workers own automobiles? Almost none! 



There is no reason to believe that prices as high as $400 per 

 acre will not be reached in America before many years. Such 

 prices for land are common in several European countries. 



GREATER ADVANCE COMING. More and more tne farmer 



is putting his work on a 



business basis, and in the same ratio the products of the farm are 

 increasing in price. 



As long as there is a demand for gold, gold mines will continue 

 to be valuable. Just so long as the price of farm products continues 

 to rise, so will the price of farm lands go higher and higher. Just 

 so long as our population continues to increase faster than the 

 increase in the products of farming, just that long will the price of 

 productive land continue to rise. 



WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS During the past year government 



figures show that all land in 



America increased in value an average of $4.85 per acre. Wiscon- 

 sin farm lands in the last decade rose from an average value of 

 $34 per acre to over $60 per acre. 



That there will never be any more land on this earth than there 

 is at the present time, and that our rapidly increasing population 

 will sooner or later out-strip the productiveness of our soils and 

 make all productive land practically invaluable is a philosophy so 

 simple that a child can understand it. 



