THE CALL OF THE LAND 



enable you to put back and not be forever 

 taking out. Dairy farming is one of the 

 best of these, because in it you take off the 

 land almost nothing that is good for the 

 land. That industry makes your farm rich 

 not only in your time, but in the time of your 

 children and your children's children. Such 

 a form of agriculture is often quite as profit- 

 able as any other, even at the outset, and it 

 is much more so in the end. You eat your 

 cake and have it too. This conservative 

 sort of agriculture we ought to adopt and to 

 encourage in every possible way. 



Let us use our influence to impart better 

 ideas of culture. Vast improvement is pos- 

 sible and in store. The future of the section 

 is destined to be glorious. So long as time 

 shall last, this grand territory is going to 

 blossom like Paradise, and be the home of a 

 population as magnificent as ever lived 

 upon our globe. 



A fourth phase of pioneership appears 

 upon the horizon of the future, that of the 

 organization of country life social, liter- 

 ary, artistic, educational, religious, eco- 



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