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distribution and banking. The man of fifty who goes 

 upon a farm will also be a man of wealth, and he will 

 not go upon the farm as a business proposition, but as 

 a luxury. The actual proprietor of the farm will be 

 born and bred to his trade, educated for it, enter it 

 when he is young and stick to it, if he succeeds, until 

 he dies. And yet this is the most serious question of 

 all: Does the future afford no promise for the farm 

 laborer ? 



