48 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



day offer its own particular inducements to the agriculturist. 

 The middle North, while still wonderfully attractive, no longer 

 holds a monopoly of good things, either in lands or produce. 

 There are farming opportunities in the East which are as 

 attractive to-day as the West offered twenty-fvwe years ago. 

 The South is a veritable Promised Land. The stories of the 

 far West and Northwest seem romantic in spite of their known 

 truth and soberness. 



It is the new era in agriculture that has rendered possible the 

 reaping from the farms of this country the unthinkable sum of 

 six and one-half billions of dollars within the year. These 

 profits, evenly distributed throughout the farming population, 

 are rapidly making for a condition of wellbeing unsurpassed 

 by any other class of the citizenship. The social life of the 

 farm is immeasurably more attractive than ever before, and 

 the improved school facilities, the labor-saving machinery, the 

 rural delivery of mails, the fine roads, the county and inter- 

 county telephone lines are daily adding to the enticing features 

 of the farmer's life. 



