52 THE BUSINESS OF FAEMING 



fit the fanner, unless marketing conditions are 

 improved. It even asserts that the movement of 

 better farming is backed by produce exchanges 

 and boards of trade who are old enemies of the 

 farmer with new faces, because they are operating 

 through the agricultural colleges, and who are 

 seeking by improved methods of farming to have 

 produced an over-supply of farm products so that 

 they may buy it at low prices and sell at high 

 prices. 



In fine, this society would have every farmer to 

 install upon his farm those methods which produce 

 worn and worn-out soils and so limit the produc- 

 tion of farm produce. In other words, the mem- 

 bers of this society would have our agricultural 

 economy augmented with worn, worn-out and 

 abandoned soils, and with discouraged, unambi- 

 tious farmers, as a means of enhancing the prices 

 of the small, inferior amount of produce, that 

 would result if such a condition should obtain 

 upon our soils. 



Surely in this age when a multiplicity of brain- 

 storm reforms are sweeping over our land like 

 cyclones, it behooveth the American farmer to 

 keep close to shelter. 



The author asserts without fear of successful 

 contradiction that no matter how extensively better 

 farm methods may be installed upon our farms, 

 the time is not in sight when the staple lines of 

 farm produce like wheat, corn, oats, rye, hay, etc., 

 and live stock, are likely to be produced in such 

 quantity that they will not sell from the farm at 

 a profit. 



This condition may obtain with fruits and veg- 



