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long range. It is quite as likely that it is the 

 city man who is in need of help. It is the 

 commonest thing for the onlooker to say that 

 farming must be more " scientific." Of course 

 this is true, but not in the way in which the 

 onlooker commonly conceives it. It is the 

 easiest thing to make the most stupid failures 

 by merely appropriating the scientific facts and 

 discoveries of the investigators; it is quite 

 another thing to work these facts into a good 

 system, but this is a matter of slow and labori- 

 ous growth. 



There are farmers and farmers. They are 

 of all kinds and nationalities, and of all ranges 

 of competency ; but the good farmer is one of 

 the most industrious, capable and steadfast of 

 men, and he is likely to have a real sympathetic 

 relationship to nature that stands him in good 

 stead at all times. He does not need to have 

 help or charities dispensed to him. But society 

 needs to recognize him, and it is high time 

 that the state should undertake positive con- 

 structive efforts that will allow him and aid 

 him to express himself to the full. There is 



