WHERE TO LOCATE 



desirable one, although under existing con- 

 ditions the results may be unsatisfactory. 

 The young man, however, is cautioned at 

 this point not to be overconfident of his own 

 ability. Under such circumstances it is well 

 to study the problem with great care, be- 

 cause the methods which seem unwise to the 

 casual observer may, after all, be found to 

 be based upon sound economic principles. 



A man of 25 who is looking for a location 

 should not only study the present conditions 

 of the locality, but try to predict what is 

 likely to be the future of the region during 

 the next third of a century, since this is the 

 period in which he may reasonably expect 

 to be personally interested, although later in 

 life he will find himself quite as much in- 

 terested in the more distant future on 

 account of his children. 



Nothing is more self-evident than that 

 one should choose a region, especially as 

 regards soil and climate, which is adapted 

 to the crop or crops to be raised, yet there are 

 probably more failures due to a lack of crop 

 adaptation than to any other cause that is not 



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