CHAPTER XXXII. 
ORGANIZATION. 
E hear a great deal about the farmer 
\) \) waking up to the fact that his calling 
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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