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the large crops of wheat, corn, vegetables, and fruits, 

 and the great number of live stock which must be 

 shipped from the farms to the cities of our country 

 and other countries. Think of the farm products 

 which we get from other lands, rice, bananas, spices, 

 coffee, and tea. You will see that commerce, which 

 is the buying and selling and transportation of goods, 

 deals with products of the farm. 



Wealth. - - The true wealth of the world is the result 

 of production from the soil and from labor. We 

 often think of gold, or money, as wealth ; but it 

 has little value in itself. As we use the quart to 

 measure milk, and the bushel to measure wheat and 

 corn, so we use gold to measure the value of our 

 wealth. If we could not exchange money for the 

 things from the farm that we must have in order to 

 live, all the money in the world would not be so 

 valuable as a crust of bread. 



QUESTIONS 



1. What is farming ? 



2. Name and define the several kinds of farming. 



3. What kinds of farming are carried on in the region in 

 which you live ? 



4. What are some of the most important products of the soil ? 



5. Make a list of the products of your own locality, arrang- 

 ing them in the order of their importance to the community. 



