THE CALL OF THE LAND 



In all the agricultural states farm land 

 values involve a speculative element. This 

 must, ere many years, in most localities drop 

 out, producing slump in land values unless 

 something is done to increase the earning 

 power of land. No systematic agency is at 

 work to this end save the agricultural col- 

 leges and the experiment stations. 



Advanced farmers, a growing class, are 

 aware of this. They know all that we 

 know, and crowd us for more information. 

 Harwood* says : "Greater practical progress 

 in all departments of life dependent on the 

 soil has been made in 50 years than in 50 

 previous centuries." Still, the general 

 farming public learns but slowly. 



We patiently and copiously distribute 

 literature without money and without price. 

 It is not enough. The effective diffusion of 

 new ideas requires living advocates. Farm- 

 ers' institutes send out capable and earnest 

 speakers like the apostles of old. Agricul- 

 tural and other papers expound, discuss and 

 exhort. State and county fairs are held. 



*" The New Earth," p. 4. 

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