HIGH COST OF LIVING 



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The farmers produce good crops of corn, wheat, and other 

 staples ; and they also support schools and churches gen- 

 erously. In the long run the type of institution that 

 feeds the mind depends upon the type of dairy, tillage, 

 and orcharding that feeds the institution. 



But the material success is desirable mainly for the sake 

 of the higher success it makes possible. Farming must 

 not merely support life : it must help to make life better 



A BUMPER POTATO CROP. 



worth living. The Lancaster corn and tobacco crops are 

 best worth while because they flower into the Lancaster 

 schools. A farmer is fully successful only if he enriches 

 the world in the things both of the body and of the spirit. 

 40. High Cost of Living. The cost of the necessities of 

 life has been rising at the rate of about one per cent a 

 year for the last two decades. It is often thought that 

 the only cause of this lies in the farmer himself ; in his 

 lack of intelligence, skill, and business sense. The causes, 

 however, are many, far-reaching, and world-wide. It costs 

 the dairyman more, for instance, to produce the high-grade 

 milk which the market now demands, than it costs to 



