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Money is saved and invested. Theirs is a program of hope. 

 As their savings and their holdings increase in value, their 

 standards of living rise; they begin to educate their children, 

 and presently are on a level with other good citizens in their 

 communities. 



(2) The attractions and associations in the family are strong 

 motives with many. Farm after farm is owned and operated 

 now by the same family, in whose ancestral line it has remained 

 for eight or even nine generations. 



(3) The natural charm of the country may be said to be the 

 motive for the establishment of the growing number of more or 

 less magnificent estates in Massachusetts. The North Shore, 

 the South Shore and the Berkshires are noted for the men from 

 the great cities and even from distant States who have sought 

 Massachusetts land for its picturesque actualities and possibili- 

 ties. 



Most of these estates possess well-rounded agricultural equip- 

 ment, and have created a large demand for skilled gardeners, 

 florists, fruit growers, herdsmen, grooms and trainers. They 

 employ expert farm managers, and supply their own tables with 

 the cleanest milk and the choicest farm, garden, orchard and 

 greenhouse products. The stables of at least one of these estates 

 shelter harness horse championship winners in international 

 competitions. The owners pay the highest prices for the best- 

 bred live stock, and in notable instances have put their farming 

 operations on a strictly economic basis, as object lessons for 

 neighboring farmers. 



Beside and among these more splendid estates there is a mul- 

 titude of simpler establishments, maintained on a more modest 

 scale, for like purposes. 



Sometimes one hears the protest that such estates are, as a 

 whole, detrimental to the public good. Whatever may or may 

 not be the merits of this contention from the point of view of 

 the community at large, it is certain that their establishment 

 cannot at present be regarded as detrimental to the interests of 

 those who must be dependent upon farming for a livelihood. 



(4) A life pursuit to be found in farming is the compelling 

 incentive of many people who engage in agriculture. This 

 State has its misfits and failures on farms, as in every other 



