CHAPTER IV 



OPPORTUNITIES IN AGRICUL- 

 TURE 



SOME years ago, a prominent magazine 

 contained an article entitled "The 

 American Farmer's Balance Sheet," in 

 which a descendant of the second and sixth 

 Presidents of the United States was shown 

 to have made in one year a profit of over 

 $19,000 from a 6,ooo-acre wheat farm in 

 North Dakota, and over $50,000 from a 

 6,ooo-acre corn farm in Iowa. A few 

 months later there appeared in the same 

 magazine another article, the purport of 

 which was that great wealth, whether it be 

 obtained from farming, the mining of coal, 

 the manufacture of steel or the selling of 

 merchandise, is the exception, while the 

 man, in whatever calling, who rears and 

 educates a family and at the same time lays 

 by a small competence is the normal Amer- 

 ican product. The moral is that a $500- 

 a-year-income farm is a more important 



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