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poses. He often has the pleasure of returning to the city 

 one of its gold bricks with compound interest. He can 

 then retire to town to take the house made vacant by the 

 new farmer. 



There are some fundamental principles of the adjust- 

 ment of population between city and country that need to 

 be considered by all persons interested in the question. 



FIG. 8. A comfortable farm home of a lawyer who went back to the 

 farm in the Shenandoah valley. 



24. With better farming fewer farmers are needed. 

 President Gilmore of the College of Hawaii, who spent 

 some years teaching agriculture in China and the Philip- 

 pines, estimates that 70 per cent of the Chinese are farmers. 

 Others place the estimate as high as 80 per cent. Each 

 man farms about 2 acres of land. Yet the greatest need 

 of China is more men. Land is idle because, with the 

 methods used, there are not men enough to farm it. Rail- 

 roads and industry are held back because of shortage of 



