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have made a good and comfortable living sev- 

 enty-five or one hundred years ago, would not 

 support a man in the way in which he ought to 

 live today, nor would it attract his boys to 

 remain on the land. 



Lack of adaptation. 



All these and other causes of the decline of 

 individual farms can be expressed as a lack of 

 adaptation to the natural surrounding condi- 

 tions. Good agriculture is the perfect adjust- 

 ment of the methods of the farmer to the 

 particular region and circumstances, thus 

 making all effort count and eliminating waste. 

 This is why some of the European farming 

 is so much better than our own. In the end, 

 therefore, good farming is not a question 

 of West or East. One often finds excellent 

 farming in what are generally considered to 

 be poor agricultural regions. 



It is a biological fact that animals and 

 plants cannot thrive unless they are well 

 adapted to the conditions in which they live ; 

 and, if they are wholly unadapted, they perish. 



