THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



tion whether a good part is not due to 

 causes that go further and deeper than 

 this ; and it is the part of the publicist and 

 statesman to determine what these causes 

 are. 



Farming is virtually the only great 

 series of occupations that is unorganized, 

 unsyndicated, unmonopolized, uncontrolled, 

 except as it is dominated by natural laws 

 of commerce and the arbitrary limitations 

 imposed by organization in other business. 

 In a time of extreme organization and sub- 

 ordination of the individual, the farmer 

 still retains his traditional individualism 

 and economic separateness. His entire 

 scheme of life rests on intrinsic earning by 

 means of his own efforts. The scheme in 

 most other businesses is to make profits, 

 and these profits are often non-intrinsic 

 and fictitious, as, for example, in the habit 

 of gambling in stocks, in which the specu- 

 lator, by mere shrewdness, turns over his 

 money to advantage, but earns nothing in 

 the process and contributes little to civ- 

 ilization in the effort. If the farmer steps 

 outside his own realm, he is met on one 

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