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of our city people under present conditions in our 

 cities and towns is a human tragedy, and life's 

 pathway is strewn with its victims. You do not 

 find this condition on our farms. The farmers 

 of our land are not subject to the incessant toil 

 and grind that is the lot of so many city men and 

 women. 



So the business of farming is not retrograding 

 if the majority of our farms are not paying their 

 owners more than a living, for by better methods 

 of farming, they can be made to produce a nice 

 surplus. If the average farm is not paying a liv- 

 ing the fault is with the owner and not with the 

 farm. Of course the owner may be handicapped 

 by lack of capital and other disadvantages, but the 

 living and the profit is in the farm and can be 

 brought forth by proper effort. To get the best 

 out of any business we must devote ourselves as- 

 siduously to its every detail with an enthusiasm 

 akin to infatuation. 



By conducting the business of farming along 

 proper lines the incomes of our farms can be more 

 than doubled. 



The average number of bushels of corn grown 

 upon our farms does not exceed thirty. Sixty to 

 one hundred can be as easily grown. The same 

 possibilities for the production of other farm crops 

 and produce also obtains. 



As we have said, no man ever made a success 

 of any business if he was not so interested in it 

 that he could look after its every detail with such 

 enthusiasm that he would devote the very best 

 work in him to it. 



Those men and women who have accomplished 



