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no grain should be marketed from American farms. 

 The acreage devoted to the growing of grain for 

 the market can never be less than it is at present, 

 and must almost inevitably become greater because 

 of the growing yearly demand for wheat, but keen 

 discrimination should be used in choosing those 

 locations which are best suited to grain production. 

 Live stock farming should not be abandoned in 

 favor of exclusive grain farming under conditions 

 where it can be proved even equally as profitable. 

 These differences in the types of farming must be 

 worked out on each individual farm and not on an 

 extensive scale for any given locality. 



SINGLE SYSTEM BAD POLICY 



No state can afford to rest her future upon any 

 single system of farming. There are several types 

 of live stock husbandry which are more profit- 

 able than grain farming, which make not only for 

 a permanent agriculture, but for a higher type of 

 country life and a more enduring civilization. There 

 are several factors aside from the actual returns per 

 acre in dollars and cents which should be consid- 

 ered in determining the relative merits of live stock 

 and grain farming. It is reasonably certain that 

 the best type of agriculture and the highest ideals 

 of country life are not possible without the keeping 

 of farm animals. The development of a more in- 

 telligent citizenship will rest very largely upon the 

 possibility of high standards of living among coun- 

 try people. The strongest personal factor which 

 has entered into the history of American agricul- 

 ture has been the tendency of the ablest and most 

 intelligent country boys to forsake the farm for 

 city life and the professions at the earliest oppor- 



