THE YOUNG FARMER 



more efficient, not merely in making money, 

 but in everything that goes to make a full 

 and well-rounded life. 



It is well to realize the resources of other 

 nations. The agricultural possibilities of 

 France appear to the casual observer to com- 

 pare favorably with any equal area in the 

 United States. One may see farm land in 

 Italy which has been cultivated for at least 

 two thousand years which is evidently as 

 fertile as any of the limestone valleys of the 

 Atlantic States, the prairies of the Missis- 

 sippi valley or the Palouse district of the 

 Northwest. Russia has enormous areas of 

 fertile soil. Careful observers report that 

 in Manchuria there are great stretches of 

 country, which today possess natural oppor- 

 tunities similar to those which the Missis- 

 sippi valley offered one hundred years ago. 

 The recent stories of the deposits of coal and 

 mineral wealth in China are almost fabu- 

 lous. Europe has rich- mines, great forests 

 and unrivaled water-power. 



Some years ago a native of Argentina and 

 a native of the United States were dining 

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