284 THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 



country, for the man who has once lost hope and 

 courage, and can be established back to the land 

 where he can regain them, and a pleasing exist- 

 ence besides, becomes a valuable citizen, and the 

 nation of valuable citizens is the most powerful 

 and prosperous. 



Here is a field for the organization of honest 

 companies whose purpose is to buy up vast tracts 

 of land, divide it up into small tracts, develop a 

 scheme by which money can be loaned to settlers 

 upon plans similar to those adopted by city Build- 

 ing & Loan Associations, who loan money on such 

 liberal terms that thousands of city people have 

 been enabled to purchase and pay for homes, and 

 which loans have always been safe and profitable 

 investments to both loaner and purchaser. The 

 same thing is being done successfully in Canada 

 to-day and is enabling many to get back to the 

 land. 



This proposition of getting back to the land is 

 suitable and practicable to both sexes. There are 

 scores of women to-day who have even gone back 

 to the abandoned lands of the eastern states and 

 established themselves upon the worn-out soils 

 and rescued these soils and brought them back to 

 themselves again, and these lands are giving to 

 these settlers peace, plenty and a happy exist- 

 ence. 



There is scarce a community but what there are 

 some opportunities for men and women to get back 

 to some portion of the soil; if it is nothing more 

 than a half acre or more, it will do much to relieve 

 distress occasioned by the city struggle for bread. 



To get as much as possible of the struggling 



