THE NEW EARTH 



signal achievements of the last quarter of the 

 century which has just closed; a series, indeed, 

 the limit of whose influence is beyond the scope 

 of the imagination. Greater practical progress 

 in all departments of life dependent upon the 

 soil has been made in fifty years than in fifty 

 previous centuries. 



Today the advanced farmer, gardener, dairy- 

 man, horticulturist or stock-breeder, — with that 

 steadily increasing number of men of means 

 who are turning back to the earth as the source, 

 after all, of the highest happiness, — is looking 

 more and more eagerly for the aid which prac- 

 tical science offers in the solution of the prob- 

 lems of the New Earth. The old-time farmer 

 still exists, often clinging to the past, often 

 knowing no higher law than that of chance, 

 planting, rearing and gathering his crops under 

 the leadership of luck, ignorant of much that 

 he could have for the asking, and, in his igno- 

 rance, committing the fatal mistake of entailing 

 ignorance upon his children. But, in the clearer 

 light, even this man is becoming broader in his 

 cultivation, while the advanced farmer, keen to 

 take advantage of the signs of the times, quick 

 to adapt his wares to the market and becoming 



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