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realizes their dream, it means that they must pos- 

 sess a faith, a hope, a courage that brooks every 

 discouragement, for discouragements will come 

 thick and fast, but the man or woman with the 

 grip that never loosens will achieve the success of 

 a competency, and a better living amid peaceful 

 and pleasing surroundings and an uplifting en- 

 vironment. 



It is said that people do not go back to the land, 

 for fear of failure and of land sharks, or the real 

 estate agent who sells worthless land above its 

 value. The pitfalls of both these reasons can be 

 avoided, and our agriculture departments in both 

 state and nation can furnish the remedies. And 

 as we have already said, the right sort of litera- 

 ture and the expert government agent can show 

 how to farm or how to avoid the failures. 



The good and the bad lands can be listed and 

 brought to the attention of the would be settlers, 

 but of course there will be failures in spite of every 

 precaution. And this is true of any business. 

 We can only take the steps that will reduce the 

 failure and other hindrances to the minimum. 



The author recently read this statement from a 

 writer upon the back to the land movement. * ' Un- 

 less you are satisfied to be just an ordinary com- 

 mon every day man and willing to mingle with 

 that class of people for the rest of your life, I 

 certainly advise you to keep out of a pair of plow 

 handles. I never knew a millionaire farmer in 

 my life." And then he went on and asked the 

 questions along this line. How many farmers did 

 you ever know who took trips to Europe, or the 

 seaside, played golf, or stopped at a high price 



