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measured acre! That shows what could be 

 done if the American farmer would increase 

 his speed. 



Let us apply this remedy to Jeremiah as 

 an individual. In the first place, it cost little 

 Jerry Moore something like one hundred and 

 forty dollars in capital and labor to win his 

 medal in the Boys' Corn Growing Contest. 

 That contest was a brilliant example of how 

 to farm with capital. Jeremiah doesn't want 

 to be told how to farm with capital. He wants 

 to know how to farm without capital. He 

 hasn't one hundred and forty dollars, nor half 

 of it, nor yet a quarter of it, to expend on a 

 single acre. The world isn't hungry enough 

 yet to finance him. Little Belgium is, with 

 its six hundred and fifty souls to the square 

 mile; but the United States, with only thirty- 

 one souls to the square mile, is still remote from 

 the necessity. 



Now apply the remedy to Jeremiah as a 

 mass, to the great American farmer. How 

 would it work out? Take Iowa as an example. 

 She is a good example because she grows thirty 

 times as much corn as the entire western half 

 of the country. 



In her bumper year (1910) she grew three 



