The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 111 



Now, just a word on a proposition that was brought up here 

 yesterday, and that was the size of farm that is going to be profit- 

 able on these cut-over lands. We had submitted to us not a 

 great while ago a plan to buy some of this cut-over land, fence 

 it off in forty-acre tracts, build a barn and house, and sell it to 

 prospective settlers, and they asked our opinion on it. That let- 

 ter was referred to me to answer, and I answered it in this way : 

 "We have made a survey in the southern part of the state which 

 arfhowed that the men who were cultivating fifty acres or less had 

 a labor income of about $200. TJie men cultivating 200 acres 

 had an income of between' $600 and $700. Would you rather 

 take a chance of getting your money back from the man who 

 made $200 or the man who got $600 or $700?" 



We are also co-operating with the railroads in developing a 



few farms along their line of route where their scheme is this : 



The railroads go to this man and say, if you will follow our in- ^ 



•1, ■ . rt-i^« rr,. Co-operating 



structiotis we will guarantee you agamst loss up to $200. ihey ^j-^/, fj^g 



come to the College and ask us to outline the work, and that is Railroads 



being carried on under the supervision of one of the graduates 



of the College and is paid for by the railroads. This work has 



just begun, and we hope in a year or so to have several more of 



these farms. 



It might be of some interest to you to know what some of 

 the men grazing this cut-over land are making. We have a rec- 

 ord of one man who is cultivating 750 acres. He is renting, in 

 addition, 1,000 acres of cut-ovei* land for pasture. His record 

 showed a labor income of $6,000, 36 per cent of that coming 

 from his live stock. By gathering information of that kind the 

 College hopes to be, in a way, of some help in this development. 

 (Applause.) 



