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capital in less than nine years by doing nothing 

 but "hang on" and counting the increasing 

 number of mouths to be fed from his limited 

 floor space. That, after all, is the source of 

 the greatest profit in farms in the last ten 

 years, and must continue to be so, in increasing 

 ratio. It is better business even than the 

 sleight-of-hand performance of pocketing rent 

 in the name of wages as he did twenty years 

 ago and as the old-line farmer is still doing 

 to-day. 



All of which brings us back to the editor 

 and his advice to the back-to-the-lander with 

 the paltry five thousand dollars. 



