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THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 





the seed bed to the hauling of the produce to market, along 

 the entire line of activities, invention is lightening the 

 burdens of farm life. Rural engineers are constantly at 

 work on new devices, self-feeders, loaders, shellers, 

 pneumatic stackers, automatic measures, potato diggers, 



manure spreaders, and 

 numerous contrivances 

 that multiply the grati- 

 fication of the hired ma 1 1 . 

 One factor in the 

 difficulty of finding farm 

 help is altogether good. 

 This is the way in which 

 the best farm laborers 

 are continually working 

 up into tenants and 

 land owners. The re- 

 port of the Country 

 Life Commission, page 

 39, puts this thought 

 well: 



"So long as the United 

 States continues to be a true 

 democracy it will have a 

 serious labor problem. As a 

 democracy we honor labor, 

 and the higher the efficiency 

 of labor the greater the 

 honor. The laborer, if he 



has ambition to be an efficient agent in the development of the 

 country, will be anxious to advance from the lower to the upper 

 form of effort, and from being a laborer himself to become a director 



BAD FARMING. 

 Wheat sprouting before it is harvested. 



labors, the farmer's is the most creative. I cannot help wondering why it is 

 that men will seek work in the grease and grime of a uoisy factory, but will 

 recoil at what they call dirty work of the farm. So much are we bound by 

 tradition." L. H. BAILEY. 



