Questions of the Da y Series. — No. LXII. 



AMERICAN FARMS 



THEIR CONDITION AND FUTURE 



BY 



J. R. ELLIOTT 



" III fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, 

 Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; 

 Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; 

 A breath can make them, as a breath hath made ; 

 But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, 

 When once destroyed, can never be supplied." 



Oliver Goldsmith 



NEW YORK & LONDON 



G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 



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 1890 



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