I20 An American Fruit-Farm 



raising, poultry-raising, duck-farming, truck-farm- 

 ing, mushroom-raising, fruit-growing. In the old 

 days one farm attempted to do all of these; to-day, 

 one farmer raises wheat; another, vegetables; 

 another, berries ; another, peaches ; another, grapes ; 

 another, cherries ; another, apples. The day of the 

 division of labor has reached the land, just as it 

 long since reached engineering, law, and medicine. 

 Each new agricultural specialty is an undiscovered 

 country; a new world, which the young man, alive 

 to his opporttmities, hastens to exploit. Turn to 

 the catalogue of one of the great universities and 

 note the division and subdivision of instruction. 

 The story is told of Cornell University that in an 

 early day. President White, who was far ahead of 

 his times in matters academic, wrote to a certain 

 professor at Brown inquiring whether he would 

 accept the chair of History, or Political Science, 

 or Economics. Promptly came the reply, '*Yes, 

 all.'* The President is said to have informed the 

 accomplished professor that the Trustees had 

 established a chair ^ not a settee. Farms are be- 

 coming chairs and ceasing to be settees. Speciali- 

 zation in farming is only one aspect of modem 

 industrial life. Whatever the specialization on the 

 farm, it is a vocation which demands expert 

 knowledge, and because it demands such knowl- 

 edge it is a vocation. Old-fashioned farming was 

 a general occupation; the new farming is a special 

 labor. And deeper than this, farming, as the 

 world is beginning to realize, is a very difficult 



