4 Soiling. 



There is not a fertile spot on the face of the earth 

 but that is a prosperous one and a desirable one in 

 which to live. 



THE CONDITION OF FARMING AT THE PRESENT DAY. 



The problem that confronts the present-day farmer 

 is how to compete with the foreigners who come to 

 this country annually by the tens of thousands, and 

 who, on their arrival, our Government sets up in 

 the farming business, offering to each one hundred 

 and sixty acres of land. The only alternative we 

 have in competing with these Government farmers is 

 to do one of two things. We must either get down 

 to their level, and work as they work, our wives and 

 children constituting our hired help on the farm 

 and in the house, live as they live, half fed and half 

 clothed, go without books and papers, without recre- 

 ation for ourselves or an education for our children. 

 That is one way, but even then we cannot hope to 

 compete with them on farms that cost us a hundred 

 dollars an acre, and on which we are taxed to sup- 

 port all sorts of charitable institutions, to say noth- 

 ing of (as in this State) building state capitols and 

 digging canals to benefit the adopted children of our 

 Government, while at the same time they have their 

 farms given to them. 



FARMING ON GOVERNMENT LANDS. 



A foreigner comes to this country with money 

 enough to pay his fare to some of the Western 

 States. Uncle Sam gives him a farm, then he finds 



