16 THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY 



etc., has stimulated the use of the waste land around these 

 budding factory centers, thus tending to encourage intensive 

 use of small, well-located tracts. 



With a climate much milder and more equable than that 

 of the Northern states, with a potential fertility of soil, 

 equally great under proper management, the South is making 

 greater strides than any other part of the country. 



The foregoing shows that in every section opportunities 

 of getting the people to the land exist. Where a man should 

 go is determined by a variety of things. If he be a newly 

 arrived immigrant used to land work in Southern Europe, 

 he would find his best chance in the South ; if a German or 

 Russian, or from any of the Northern European countries, 

 he would find the beet-sugar sections of Michigan, Colorado, 

 or California more to his liking ; if American born, without 

 much knowledge of out-door work, and feeling the need of 

 social life, the cheap farms of New York, New Jersey, and 

 New England would probably be most attractive. 



Many persons write me that I say it is necessary to get 

 good land near population or with cheap and assured trans- 

 portation facilities and that it must not cost more than it 

 is worth for gardening. " I find," they say, "that such acres 

 are held as 'lots' at wildly speculative prices" and they ask 

 "Where can I find such land?" But this is a book on agri- 

 cultural use of land. Why land costs too much and where 

 the remedy lies are other questions, dealt with in my "Things 

 as They Are." 



However, probably the best chances now for intensive cul- 

 tivation are in New Jersey, in the backwoods of the Middle 

 states now made accessible by cheap autos and in the South. 



What can be undertaken with good prospects of success 

 will be outlined in the following chapters. 



