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our history or rather we have let it solve 

 itself. If two acres did not produce enough 

 food it was easy to plow three acres. It was 



POPULATION AND NUMBER OF FARMS AND LAND IN FARMS 



VALUE OF FARM PROPERTY 



a. Value of land without buildings. 



merely a question of inducing a homesteader 

 to expend about $15 worth of his own time 

 on a piece of prairie sod and plant corn. The 

 soaring price of food in the last ten years has 

 tempted more and more men and women 



