22 FARMING MORE PROFITABLE THAN EVER 



quick and regular marketing, but enables city people to 

 live in the country. It has such an influence on the 

 prosperity and comforts of rural life that land becomes 

 a most desirable investment, being certain to advance in 

 value. 



If you are starting a country home, or planning to 

 do so, make up your mind that farming as an avocation 

 can be made both pleasant and profitable. Confine the 

 work to reasonable hours and have such a variety of 

 products that something will appeal to every member of 

 the family. 



This is necessary if boys and girls are to be held in the 

 country. Farming has been plain drudgery in too many 

 cases, and ambitious young people have been driven to the 

 cities. Unmistakable signs of a change in this tendency 

 are seen. The country eventually will be attractive both 

 as to occupation and home-making. 



There has been real progress in recent years in agri- 

 culture and the development of a broader and more hope- 

 ful rural life. Actual results are being accomplished 

 along these progressive lines. It is apparent that the 

 financial side of farming has reached a higher plane than 

 it occupied five years ago. 



Questions of selling and buying are receiving more 

 attention than ever before, and the principle of co-opera- 

 tion is being applied in these and other matters pertain- 

 ing to the farmer's business. 



Telephones are breaking in upon the isolation and 

 monotony of rural life ; good roads can bring neighbors 

 still closer and the outside world nearer by encouraging 

 rural mail delivery. With a care for beauty in home 

 surroundings, even on the prairie a vast change can be 

 wrought — a change that not alone will increase the value 

 of the farm, but with other conveniences will make a 

 farm home ideal. 



Just at present those living in cities, large and small, 



