64 THE NEW BUSINESS OF FARMING 



put the cost of his apples where it is hopeless 

 for the specialized orchardist to compete. 



The Prince of Monaco has found that a cer- 

 tain percentage charged against each bet made 

 in his palaces will bring him in a fortune. The 

 deluded players look only for the big returns 

 and, in the aggregate, are sure to lose. The 

 wise farmer will work out the best system of 

 farming for his particular conditions and will 

 stick to it, knowing that in the long run he will 

 make more money by so doing than by trying to 

 hit the high spots each season. It is not suffi- 

 cient that his combination pays him a profit ; it 

 must pay him the best profit of any combination 

 of crops, to be the right one for him to follow. 



After a year of good prices the newspapers 

 use up any amount of perfectly good paper in 

 urging the farmers to increase their crops, and 

 statisticians begin to figure on the added wealth 

 that would come to the State if the farmers 

 would only double up on production. Fortu- 

 nately it is only the city people who accept this 

 gratuitous advice, and so it doesn't matter. One 

 year cabbages may sell for sixty dollars a ton 



