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ingly increasing obligations upon the grower and producer, 

 which must be appreciated and observed. Discussing the 

 situation from the business side, with special reference to 

 reducing cost of production, these important considerations 

 present themselves with a force not to be lost by the think- 

 ing producer. 



The wastes which must be eliminated before the industry 

 reaches its higher levels are not alone along the lines already 

 suggested, but bear a direct application to the individual 

 farmer. To-day the successful farmer is not only a mechanic, 

 but an artist ; he realizes the necessity for reducing the cost 

 of production, and, to a degree, of frictionless machines, 

 whether animate or inanimate ; but to succeed he must have 

 an artist's outlook, he must see clearly before him the per- 

 fected crop, the ideal structure in the animals constituting 

 his herd, and pronounced individuality in each necessary for 

 large service ; and with this large, full appreciation there 

 will be wanted the same unbounded enthusiasm found in the 

 ranks of the mechanic, the tradesman or the specialist. 



Here is the field for future operations. Men succeed not 

 solely out of intuitive perceptions, but because these have 

 been sharpened and made critical through study and investi- 

 gation, because they have grown into large comprehension 

 of underlying principles, and, by the force of a dominant 

 will, intelligently invite their flocks and herds out into ever- 

 broadening fields of service. Here is the demand for econ- 

 omy of nerve force on the part of the producer ; here the 

 opportunity to make the conscious and unconscious forces 

 of nature yield greater returns ; here the field wherein waste 

 forces are to be utilized, sympathetic relations established, 

 and our agriculture made real, positive, strong, invigorating 

 and attractive to the coining generation. 



