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the benefits which flow from intelligently man- 

 aged forest preserves. It is not enough to 

 show that intelligent farming is highly remu- 

 nerative at the present time ; provision must 

 be made by which the children and the chil- 

 dren's children, for all generations, may have 

 opportunity for securing a competence from 

 rural pursuits. 



Can a competence and a comfortable home 

 be secured by the renter? If not, why not? 

 Shall the farmer put his little capital into a 

 home and run in debt for supplies and neces- 

 sary equipment ; or had he belter rent, and 

 start even ? This depends to a large extent 

 upon the individual. A successful country life 

 does not depend upon owning the land in fee 

 simple. Here is a picture of what may be 

 called ''a country gentleman" (Fig. 8). He, 

 his father and his grandfather, all have been 

 renters of the same farm. He has a com- 

 petence and an assured income. This hue and 

 cry about renting has no terrors for those who 

 have been renters and have found that this is 

 often the most satisfactory way to start when 

 capital is limited. The merchant of limited 

 means invariably rents the building in which 

 he does business, because it is safer and usu- 

 ally more economical to rent than to purchase 

 the business block. 



