76 THE FARMER OF TO-MORROW 



is the time to apply the horse medicine. Either 

 work it hard enough to pay its keep (this costs 

 time and money just as full steam consumes 

 more coal than half steam) or look around for 

 land that exacts less. 



Take a concrete example. It requires a 

 two-million-dollar plant a twenty-story sky- 

 scraper to show a profit on a building site 

 at Broad and Wall streets, New York City, 

 where land is assessed at $30,000 a front foot. 

 Not so very long ago a site at this corner was 

 occupied by a two-story building. The owner 

 sold out when the cost of keeping the property 

 began to eat up his profits. Then a syndicate 

 with time and money erected a two-million- 

 dollar sky-scraper on the site, thus working 

 the plot of land hard enough to pay its keep. 

 The original owner moved further up town, 

 where a cheaper lot answered his modest needs. 



Farmers adopt the same plan. Seven hun- 

 dred thousand farmers have crossed the line 

 into Canada in ten years moving "farther 

 up town." Many of them, of course, possessed 

 only a railroad ticket, having come too late 

 to find a homestead under the Stars and 

 Stripes. But a goodly number were farmers 

 from Illinois and Iowa, carrying satchels full 



