blinded the eyes to rare opportunities that wait nearby. 

 There is rich land in the West, and great fortunes 

 have been made from it. No one can dispute that. But 

 the men and women of the East who go there to farm 

 are ignoring the possibilities of a vast region between the 

 Atlantic and the Great Lakes, where they can find soil 

 just as fertile as beyond the Mississippi, climate just as 

 healthful, sky and hills and 

 valleys and rivers just as 

 beautiful ; where they can 

 have schools for their chil- 

 dren, the most regular and 

 rapid railway accomodations 

 that the country affords, and 

 what is most important of 

 all, on the financial side 

 the growing and greedy mar- 

 kets of the East close at 

 hand to absorb their milk 

 and gram and hay and fruits 

 and vegetables. If the sa- 

 gacious Horace Greeley 

 were alive today to give ad- 

 vice to young men ambitious THERE 



to become farmers, it is more than probable that he would 

 amend his former instructions and say, "Go west, young 

 man but not too far." 



DERHAPS the most remarkable phase of this "back- Back 



to-the-farm" movement has been the apparent readiness to the 

 of settlers to pay for western land higher prices than Farm 



is MONEY IN GROWING GRAPES 



