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and organization, farm lands would rise in value 

 greatly, and every farmer and the whole country 

 would be the richer. On such a firmly established 

 basis as this our national prosperity could hardly be 

 shaken. As has been pointed out, the farmer could 

 and would spend more money for improvements, 

 more for education, and more for both necessities 

 and luxuries. Indeed, things that are now luxuries 

 would speedly become necessities. The certainty of 

 the business, as contrasted with the present uncer- 

 tainty, would put a new life and spirit into the 

 farmers. They would be proud of their occupation, 

 and happy and contented in it. Travel, books, pic- 

 tures, better clothes, better house furnishings, more 

 amusements, and a wider and fuller life, would all 

 be in reach of the farmers. There would be no need 

 of pinching economy in the good years to insure 

 against distress in the bad years. Having a certain 

 profit from their products, they would spend it free- 

 ly, and every industry in the country would be bene- 

 fited — even beyond the dreams of the past — thus ben- 

 efiting every man, woman and child. The improve- 

 ments that the farmer would feel that it was worth 

 while to make would still further increase the value 

 of the farms, and thus in every possible material way 

 the improvement would be tremendous. The men 

 on the farms would not have to work as hard as they 

 do now, and they could shorten their working day, 

 thus gaining time for other things. With a larger 

 margin of profit, they would not be driven to raise 



