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very much more than offsets any depreciation in buildings and 

 machinery. 



"As you get down into smaller farms the comparison between 

 the farmer and the city man of equal income is much more favorable 

 to the farmer. The city workman who earns $3 a day and pays $12 

 a month rent is infinitely worse off than the small farmer who earns 

 from his farm only barely enough to maintain his family. The city 

 workman is never sure of his job any more than the city manufacturer 

 is sure that his business is going to continue to prosper. The fanner, 

 whether on a small scale, or a large scale, knows to a certainty that 

 there are going to be more people every year wanting the things 

 which he produces, and that with ordinary intelligence and a reason- 

 able amount of work he can never fail or be out of a job." 



