282 THE BUSINESS OF FAEMING 



If these city people could get back to the land 

 much of their burdens could be, and would be re- 

 lieved. 



To establish these people upon the land does 

 not require a large amount of land for each in- 

 dividual family. 



A five or ten acre tract of land farmed and 

 managed in the proper manner would provide at 

 the closest estimate as large an income as many 

 of those families have been receiving in the cities, 

 and as their expenses in the country would be so 

 greatly curtailed they would live better than in 

 the city, besides enjoying the other advantages of 

 country life. 



There are fine opportunities for money making 

 in the farming of small tracts of land near most 

 every city. The rearing of poultry, growing of 

 small fruits and vegetables, is a most profitable 

 business and does not require large tracts of land 

 to carry it on. 



There is much land in the eastern, middle, and 

 southern states, susceptible of great possibilities 

 in the back to the land movement. Many city 

 people have made, and are now making good on 

 these lands, and have relieved themselves of the 

 city grind, and now endure a pleasing existence. 

 True they have met with discouragement, and it 

 has taken grit and determination to hang on and 

 make good, but with courage and work and study, 

 most any person can establish themselves upon 

 this land and can soon enjoy the glorious privilege 

 of country existence, provided they had some 

 capital with which to make the start. 



So the hardest problem to solve in this back to 



