Learn How to Go Back to the Land 



Continued difficulties have caused an influx of city 

 people to the country. Some prosper and are happy. 

 Others find that the "turkeys do not grow on trees and 

 already roasted." Those who have been accustomed to 

 earning five dollars or more a day see the cash supply 

 come slowly, and become discouraged. They do not know 

 the principles of farming, and many mistakes are made. 



There are always plenty to advise some great improve- 

 ment which will require a goodly outlay of labor — these 

 same advisers ever standing ready to do this work at their 

 own price. The principle may be correct, but the labor 

 bill is liable to be excessive. 



No farmer would expect to go to the city and launch 

 into a new business without losing money at the start. 

 The sane way is to commence gradually, study conditions 

 and methods thoroughly, and then advance with caution. 



Many a city man has gone back to the crowded life 

 discouraged, just because he did not know how to com- 

 mence. Had he rented a small plot of ground and spent 

 his spare moments in making a garden, there would have 

 been renewed strength in the exercise, and he would 

 have been better prepared in a single season to undertake 

 the larger proposition. 



His business principles would enable him to grasp the 

 subject with comparative ease; but he should no longer 

 follow the time-honored sentiment that the man who does 

 not know how to do anything else can farm. 



Farming is now a many-sided proposition. No other 

 occupation requires so varied a knowledge. No other 

 develops more fully the best that is in man. 



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