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new house because he could buy the adjoin- 

 ing farm with a good house on it and get 

 the farm buildings and all for half what it 

 would cost to build a new house. 



Another friend of mine had sold his farm 

 in Washington county, Oregon, and took it 

 into his head to go back East and look over 

 the abandoned farm situation. He was so 

 well impressed with a beautiful farm in 

 New York State and the low price he could 

 buy it for that he bought it and ordered his 

 things shipped out from Oregon, but in the 

 meantime while waiting for his things to 

 arrive he found out the conditions of the 

 adjoining farms. He never unloaded his 

 things but had them shipped back to Ore- 

 gon and his farm stands there without an 

 occupant. 



I write these items into this article to il- 

 lustrate what I want to convey to the minds 

 of my readers. I find out whenever I speak 

 on this subject my hearers let their minds 

 go to purely local conditions and think of 

 the people who are living on the most fav- 

 ored spots of production. We know of wheat 

 raisers in Eastern Oregon and Eastern 

 Washington's best sections who are im- 

 mensely wealthy by wheat raising, also we 

 know of sheep men and cattle men who are 

 favorably situated who have become im- 

 mensely wealthy. 



Returning again to France, the dividing 

 of the land into such small holdings has not 



