CAMPBELL'S SOIL CULTURE MANUAL 23 



More and more it is becoming recognized everywhere 

 that farming is the one business that all others depend 

 upon. No other business or profession is so important 

 from a material standpoint. It supplies that from which 

 all other development proceeds. But it is not what it 

 once was. It is not an incidental calling. It is the bus- 

 iness of millions of the very best of the people 

 of the earth. These people have a broader outlook and 

 are facing greater possibilities than ever before. 



The tendency is now as it must ever be to the small 

 farm as against the "bonanza farm," which has so much 

 characterized the newer portions of the United States, 

 The abolition of the bonanza farm, which is inevitable, 

 will change the whole feeling toward farm life. The small 

 farmer is the one who gets the most out of his work. He 

 is the one who develops. He will follow the more inten- 

 sive system of farming. He will do the most to develop 

 his state and country. 



And the small farmer is the one who makes his farm 

 his home. He seeks comfort for himself and his children. 

 He does not build a shed to shelter him during the crop 

 season with his family miles away. He becomes a per- 

 manent fixture in his country. He builds good houses 

 and barns, he gets the best cattle and horses and hogs, 

 he has a garden of flowers and he plants trees. He wants 

 the school house to be located not far away and he wil- 

 lingly taxes himself for support of the school. He con- 

 tributes to the erection of a church in the village and he 

 is careful that the rural route and the co-operative tele- 

 phone do not pass him by. 



The ideal farmer makes the ideal farm, and in tun? 

 there is compensation quite enough. 



