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or woman who once escapes the city grind and 

 struggle for bread and becomes attached to the 

 soil would ever want to become entangled in its 

 chafing meshes again. 



The government at Washington is making the 

 effort to study out and put into execution a plan 

 of farm credits which will help to supply the req- 

 uisite capital to our farmers and it is to be hoped 

 it will in a measure at least, also solve the problem 

 of financing this back to the land movement. 



A pleasing experience of a young man and his 

 wife who got back to the land came under the 

 author's observation during the last three years, 

 the reciting of which may give the reader courage 

 and hope if he or she is contemplating the joining 

 of this movement. 



Five years ago a girl friend of the author, 

 reared in the country, married a city young man 

 who knew nothing of country life from experi- 

 ence. They became residents of a large city, he 

 being in the employ of a mercantile agency. Two 

 years of city married life too plainly told them 

 that the city struggle for bread would be difficult, 

 and if they ever intended to secure a firm footing 

 in life, the farm was the place to secure it. They 

 were able to secure funds sufficient to buy a small 

 farm of about sixty acres of worn-out soil situated 

 in southern Indiana. The place had been so neg- 

 lected that it was almost an abandoned farm, both 

 as to buildings and land. They made the start, 

 bought the land and began the business of farming. 

 The young wife visited the author a short time 

 ago and she told of their struggles in their new 

 business of farming. How the vicissitudes of dry 



