City Men Succeed on Farms 



In many notable cases city men are succeeding as farm- 

 ers. If they do not know all about raising grain and 

 handling livestock, they are able, as a general rule, to 

 apply business methods to their undertakings. 



Successful farm management must include a knowl- 

 edge of buying and selling. In this particular the city 

 man is apt to be ahead of his rural neighbor. It is 

 essential to know what consumers require, what the usual 

 retail prices are on farm commodities and the facilities 

 available for transporting and selling. The man of city 

 experience understands these things and he goes in for a 

 line of produce like onions, beans, potatoes, ducks, 

 chickens and carnations and asters, on which he gets big 

 profits. 



It would not be like a city man to raise wheat at 75 

 cents a bushel and twenty bushels to the acre when he 

 can get 90 cents a bushel for onions and 250 bushels 

 to the acre. This illustrates the whole idea, and no truth 

 is more striking than the fact that city men are needed in 

 agriculture. 



It is difficult to estimate offhand the economic impor- 

 tance of the much-talked-about movement of families 

 from the city to the farm. The "back to the land" 

 exhortation to ail intents and purposes is a "go west, 

 young man,'' motto redressed. So far as migration to 

 the farm interests men with money and intelligence, the 

 whole idea is splendid and can only lead to success. 



It is not all a matter of settlement or numerical in- 

 crease on the land. The country demands introduction 

 of new crops or products, establishment of new enter- 



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