these have combined to give 

 wider opportunities for edu- 

 cation, social intercourse and 

 all the things that make life 

 worth living. And the eco- 

 nomic tendency of the time 

 the enormous growth of con- 

 sumption protects from the 

 fear of want the farmer of 

 ordinary industry and pru- 

 dence. 



Where {JNITED States Govern- 



Soil ment figures show that 



Is Rich the average yield per acre 

 of New Jersey, New York 

 and Pennsylvania exceeds 

 that of other States where 

 farming land has recently 



been in great demand. Wide-awake farmers who are 

 following scientific methods, in the territory traversed by 

 the Lehigh Valley Railroad, are highly prosperous, and 

 even those who handle their lands in the most slovenly 

 fashion escape by a wide margin the anxiety suffered in the 



ALFALFA ON THE OLD JOHN JOHNSON FARM 

 Seeded June i, 1910, it yielded five tons to the acre in 1911. The picture shows the third cutting. 



congested cities by persons of small resources. Many a man 

 who invests his total savings in a house on a fifty-foot sub- 

 urban lot could buy, with the same amount of money, a farm 

 of many acres -dwelling, outbuildings, tools, growing or- 

 chard, and even chickens and cows and horses. 



