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always did, as a matter of fact we don't. We are trying to 

 overcome that by machinery. We hire a good deal of piece 

 work. We are situated where we can get a large number of 

 women. We try to work them in wherever we can, but I 

 rather feel that at the present time business is in sort of an 

 unsatisfactory situation because we cannot pay the full wages 

 and give the same working hours — I can't afford to — that 

 the Railroad Administration has established. Our town is a 

 railroad center, and that is our main competition. 



A Member. With your experience in life, would you advise 

 a young man to go into farming or go into something else? 



Mr. Brigham. Well, I asked that question when I was a 

 young man of one of the best farmers that you ever produced, 

 I think, in Massachusetts, the late Mr. A. W. Cheever, who, 

 at that time, was editor of the "New England Farmer," or a 

 contributor, and be wrote me a long letter, I remember, when 

 I was in the high school. I asked him that question, and he 

 referred me to, and I believe bought for me, Donald Grant 

 Mitchell's "My Farm of Edgewood," in which Mr. Mitchell 

 answered that question. I believe that agriculture is the basic 

 industry. We cannot get along without it, and I believe that 

 in a series of years conditions are bound to be such that a 

 man who follows farming, and follows it efficiently, is going to 

 make a good living, and something besides. He won't be a 

 multi-millionaire. He may not. I never saw but one farmer, 

 in fact, who got to be worth a million. He lived in Norfolk, 

 Virginia; a farmer down there got to be worth a million. He 

 is the only specimen of the kind I ever saw. 



A Member. Did he do it all on the farm? 



Mr. Brigham. Well, he made investments as he accumulated 

 money. 



A Member. Did he make it on the farm? 



Mr. Brigham. I do not know abou^ that, but he was a very 

 fortunate farmer. That is where he made his money — • where 

 he got his start. Of course, then he made something out of 

 investments, as he accumulated money. But I believe there is 

 something in farming, and there has got to be. If the in- 

 dustrial structure of the country is safe, I believe in a long 

 series of years farming has got to be a good business, and I 



