CHAPTER V 



RESULTS TO BE EXPECTED 



" IF we get every one out on the farms, then there will be 

 an over-production of farm products and a fall in prices." 



True, but there are farmers who could do better in towns ; 

 what we want to do is to make it easy for people to get on 

 the land about the cities, then it would be equally easy for 

 those farmers who are better adapted for city life to get near 

 the cities. 



Under present conditions, where the worker is forced out 

 fifteen or twenty miles from the town by the high price of 

 land and the large amount of land required, the farmer is 

 as much cut off from the city as the city dweller is cut off 

 from rural life. 



We need not be afraid to teach men better ways ; there 

 will always be plenty too stupid or too old or too isolated 

 to learn; these will remain a bulwark against too sudden 

 change. 



Dr. Engel, former head of the Prussian Statistical Bureau, 

 informs us that " Scientific farming succeeds because a given 

 amount of effort, when more intelligently directed, produces 

 greater results. Inasmuch, then, as the amount of food 

 which the world can consume is limited, the smaller will 

 be the number of farmers required to produce the needed 

 supply, and the larger will be the number driven from the 

 country to the city. It has already been observed that if 



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