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Vast areas of virgin land and small amount 

 of labor called for new and large methods. 

 The lands soon paid for themselves, and sur- 

 plus accumulated. This surplus has been 

 turned into the home and the school. In 

 most of the small towns of the prosperous 

 parts of the West, the school building is the 

 most imposing structure in the place. Freer 

 ideas of farming developed, and larger ideas of 

 the individual farmer and the home life. 



These ideals are now reacting on the East. 

 The East is arousing ; and with the best of its 

 traditions still preserved, it will again develop 

 a race of mighty farmers, if, in fact, it has lost 

 them. The so-called abandonment of farms of 

 New England and other parts of the East is to 

 be the salvation of the agriculture, for it means 

 the abandonment of old ideas and the readjust- 

 ment of the business into new lines. The great 

 agriculture will be East as well as West. 



The open country has its own society. 



Not nearly all of mankind will go to the 

 cities, and not all of the civilization and the 



