THE YOUNG FARMER 



farming, the amount of food supplied the 

 table from the farm is comparatively small. 

 The rancher in Montana eats foods canned 

 in Maine or Delaware, while the New 

 Hampshire farmer buys his vegetables rom 

 Boston commission merchants. The Min- 

 nesota farmer cannot supply his breakfast 

 table with oranges, grapefruit or oatmeal. 

 Many of them buy, if not their bread, at 

 least their flour, and also their butter. The 

 fact that the city man indulges in high liv- 

 ing is no argument in favor of the country 

 man expecting less wages. Some of those 

 things which are necessary to make the 

 country an ideal place to live are expensive. 

 Some of them are more expensive to obtain 

 in the country than in the city, as, for ex- 

 ample, educational facilities. In justifying 

 his purchase of an automobile, a young 

 farmer recently stated that his wife had cer- 

 tain cares, responsibilities and even priva- 

 tions which her city friends did not have. 

 He thought that the automobile would help 

 to offset them. 



To my mind there is no more ideal place 

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