CHAPTER XXXII. 



ORGANIZATION. 



WE hear a great deal about the farmer 

 waking up to the fact that his calUng 

 is a business that must be conducted 

 upon business principles, if it is to pay. Any- 

 body who knows anything about the farming 

 methods, or lack of methods, of the past, will 

 recognize that this awakening has not come a 

 moment too soon. Neither is the farmer wide 

 enough awake even yet. But the feeling is 

 growing, and much of the credit is due to the 

 farm papers, the agricultural colleges and the 

 writers of books on farming and gardening on a 

 small scale. 



Somewhere, hidden in the heart of almost 

 every man, is a longing to own a bit of land and 

 grow vegetables or fruits; and it is to this man 

 that the new order of things means most. He 

 has had business experience, and will naturally 

 apply business principles to anything he takes up. 



It is not many years since agricultural col- 

 leges were looked upon with amusement, if 

 not with scorn, by the very people whom they 

 were intended to help. The " scientific" farmer 

 was classed with that other hopeless being, the 

 "book farmer." But the colleges and books 



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