HINDRANCES 51 



table customers, until he was tired inrbody and in 

 mind. He has toiled from ten to twelve hours a 

 day at the stone and brick mason trade. He 

 practiced law for more than a score of years, with 

 a large clientage, and did office work, and tried 

 law suits until his body was so tired and brain so 

 jaded that he could scarcely sleep. 



He has managed and carried on a manufactur- 

 ing business with its perplexing and harassing 

 problems, annoyances and drawbacks, and he 

 knows much of the modern methods of farming. 



To remove many of the hindrances to the busi- 

 ness of farming those engaged in it must develop 

 the social side of the farmer's life. At present 

 it is the least developed. The cooperative or- 

 ganizations among the farmers along the lines 

 that will draw them together so that they may 

 discuss the problems pertaining to their business 

 should be encouraged. Every other business 

 has similar organizations which not only pro- 

 mote better business, but also develop the social 

 side and thus provide the recreation that every 

 one needs, and which helps so much to make 

 smooth the rough places of life's pathway. 

 When the social side of the business of farming 

 has been so developed that every farm community 

 will be supplied with those organizations that 

 give to every one engaged in the business the 

 opportunity to secure better farm methods and 

 better farm living, then the stream of humanity 

 flowing from country to city will be stayed. 



There is a farmers' society which assails the 

 movement to increase crop yields upon the ground 

 that large crop yields will injure instead of bene- 



