CHAPTER V 

 WHERE TO LOCATE 



UNLESS the young farmer expects to 

 return to the ancestral home, the first 

 question he must settle is where he is going 

 to locate. Indeed, one of the most common 

 questions asked is, What do you think of 

 this state or that state or this region or that 

 as a place to farm? There are few 

 questions harder to answer. This is due, 

 among other reasons, to the fact that every 

 place has its advantages and disadvantages. 

 The sum of the advantages may be greater 

 in one place than in another, but if these 

 advantages are known they must generally 

 be paid for. 



New adaptations, however, may change 

 materially the value of the land in a given 

 locality as, for example, the discovery that 

 a region is especially adapted to raising 

 alfalfa, onions, cabbages, apples or peaches. 

 Changing conditions, as the growth of popu- 

 lation or better transportation facilities, may 



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