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THE " BACK TO THE LAND " MOVEMENT 



In Australia the 300-acre wheat farm has proved too small. 

 In Dakota the 7,000-acre wheat farm has proved too large. Only 

 actual experimentation can tell us what is the economical size of 

 a wheat farm, or of any other kind of a farm. The experimenta- 



FIG. 8. A large farm. View on the America Sharon Land Company's 40,000 acre farm in 

 Red River Valley of North Dakota. 



FIG. 9. Some of the buildings and grain elevators on the America Sharon Land Company's 



big farm. 





tion of the past, carried on in the various countries, as chronicled 

 in the preceding pages, tends to prove that while big farms have 

 bad features and good features, so also the small farms have good 

 features and bad features. The socially desired solution of this 

 problem coincides with the individually desired solution, namely, 

 that sized farm which yields its owner the highest net returns. 



