

over lands primed by the hind men with the belief that 

 capital is unnecessary, hard labor non-essential, and 

 stumps little or no obstruction to successful tilling of 

 land. None of these things are true, and the sooner 

 and more completely such ideas are abandoned the 

 fewer will be the abandoned farms in the North and 

 the fewer will be the prodigals returning to the source 

 of the future settlers to spread curses and cold water 

 on the plans for the development of that future em- 

 pire. Already these human boomerangs have come 

 hack on the land business with such force that the 

 abandoned land office is almost as familiar as the aban- 

 doned shack, often the monument to buried hopes and 

 wrecked life. Nemesis is getting in his great work, 

 and the sooner he finishes it the better it will be for 

 the North country. 



Not that these cut-over lands have no agricultural 

 value; they have a very decided value, but that value 

 is a rose set among many thorns and not a lily flaunt- 

 ing itself before the world on a smooth and tender 

 stem. In order to pick it, the would-be farmer must 

 be prepared with the knowledge of the proper method, 

 a sufficient capital and tireless industry. Given those 

 three a slow but sure success awaits him; lacking any 

 one of them he may exist, but prosperity will ever 

 elude him. 



\Vhy not face these problems honestly? Experience 

 has shown that these lands can be successfully de- 

 veloped through the proper methods and hard labor, 

 and only so. Why not deal honestly with the settler, 

 tell him the truth, and equip him for the task before 



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