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has anyone. There are some large nurseries and seed houses and 

 other large enterprises that are doing well. But these have usually 

 grown by the direct management of their owners. Often several 

 generations of the same family have developed the enterprise. 

 Such enterprises have not often been successful when started by 

 wealthy men from the city who depended on hired managers. 

 About the only way in which such inexperienced men have often 

 made successes has been in buying land and holding it for a rise 

 in price. 



Even the large farms of the West where the farming is of the 

 simplest kind are rapidly being broken up or rented. In order to 

 manage a large tract of land profitably, it is necessary to have 

 several centers, and the best method of management for the 

 centers is to give the man a share in the returns, that is, rent the 

 farm. The standard system of giving the worker a share in farm 

 returns is to rent him the place for a share of the products. 



An even less hopeful kind of farming is the corporation that 

 sells unit orchards or other parcels of land, when the buyer has 

 nothing to do with the enterprise except to move onto the farm 

 sometime in the future when the farm has been made to order 

 and is to be producing a fine revenue. Such schemes profit 

 from selling to city persons only. Farmers rarely make such 

 investments, except when they are the promoters. Those who 

 understand farming know better than to make such investments. 



