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purchase a farm and develop it as an adjunct to his city busi- 

 ness. His farm is a strictly financial proposition. Though 

 model equipment and conditions have been established, he 

 does not use it for a summer residence, and his visits to the 

 farm are for inspection and for conference with his manager. 

 Strict accounts are kept. Waste from the catering kitchens 

 is sold to the piggery department. Poultry, market-garden, pig- 

 gery, fruit and dairy products are sold to the catering ends of the 

 combined business. The books show that the farm is a paying 

 investment. 



" Golden New England," by Mr. Sylvester Baxter (" The 

 Outlook/ 7 Sept. 24, 1910, pages 179-190), is an account of 

 the status and prospects of farming in this section. Mr. Bax- 

 ter gives the following instance : 



On a certain Essex County place a Boston business man has gone 

 into apples in a way that ranks the undertaking as a great business 

 enterprise. A single place, with something like 50,000 apple trees, 

 not only cuts a large figure in Massachusetts, even in the great west 

 it would mean " going some." 



(6) With little farms,, intensive farming yields large returns. 

 Contrasted with the western prairies, the smaller fields along 

 and among the hills and streams of Massachusetts have seemed to 

 some impossible of profitable cultivation. By them it is even 

 asserted that Massachusetts is " not an agricultural State." 

 Such a remark is met by the Massachusetts farmer with a blank 

 look of amazement. He has no doubt that farming in this 

 State is a permanent and an increasingly important vocation. 

 He knows that fundamental to advancing agriculture is a 

 market commensurate with its output; and he sees the manu- 

 facturing towns in his neighborhood growing with a rapidity 

 almost beyond belief. 



Even in the west, not the enormous holding, but the smaller 

 one is now recognized as the more promising basis for the most 

 permanent and profitable agricultural production. Evidence 

 is abundant that the little farm may yield large returns. One 

 of the tidiest bits of farming seen the past summer was on a 

 10-acre farm, of which part was in pasture and only about 6 

 acres were under cultivation. Some of the land was tilted on 



