212 THE BUSINESS OF FABMING 



these things should not forget the true conditions 

 that obtain, and always will obtain in the agricul- 

 tural world, and, therefore, not advocate the doing 

 of impossible things. 



We find conditions obtaining upon the farm that 

 can not be changed, but they can be improved to 

 the advantage of the great business of farming, 

 and therefore to the advantage of the people in 

 general. For instance, if conditions are such that 

 live stock farming can not be engaged in by every 

 farmer, then the condition that necessarily follows 

 the lot of those who engage in grain farming, who 

 do not secure enough manure to keep up and main- 

 tain the fertility of the farm, can be so changed 

 that they can follow a system of green manuring 

 by which bumper crops can be grown, and farm 

 fertility can not only be increased but maintained. 



The alarm has been sounded that a serious 

 shortage of the meat supply threatens our nation. 

 The breaking up of the western ranges has had 

 much to do with this shortage, and if it be true as 

 some claim, that "rich red juicy beef" is neces- 

 sary to put the virile force into the American 

 people, then this apparent meat shortage indeed 

 becomes a serious menace to our people, and re- 

 quires that something be done to remedy the con- 

 dition of meat shortage. 



Many and varied are the remedies suggested. 

 Among them being that "every farmer should 

 raise at least two beef steers a year to offset the 

 decreased production of the ranges." "The re- 

 maining ranges should be cut up into farms." 

 "Development of the hills of New England, with 

 their bountiful springs and prevailing shade." 



