6 THE FARMER OF TO-MORROW 



pastoral period, came back from the land. 

 The period is within the memory of the rising 

 generation when the tide turned toward the 

 cities; when nothing was so cheap as land, 

 and whole townships were abandoned to mort- 

 gages that could not be satisfied. Jeremiah 

 the Reaper, who had gone forth seeking a 

 "homestead," saw a miserable old age, and 

 his' sons mounted high stools and adjusted 

 high-power spectacles and became book- 

 keepers. It was much better to buy two-cent 

 hogs than to sell them. 



All of which brings us to our Jeremiah of 

 the present day, who wants to go back to the 



land. 



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This Jeremiah of to-day is a strange prod- 

 uct. He is a fact, yet he is a glaring fallacy. 

 He is a son of the Land, a son of sons of 

 generations of the Land; yet in the one or 

 two decades that have passed since he turned 

 his back on the Land, too much Land, Land 

 as a curse, he has involved himself and his 

 fellows in a situation of such complexity that 

 two out of every three hours he toils for his 

 bread are devoted to the intricate process of 

 bringing to his own door that same bread, the 



