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May, 1907 



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follows that the gross income will be the 

 amount stated. In a later chapter he utters 

 a much-needed note of warning against 

 counting profits from chickens, on the ground 

 of inexhaustible competitors, who will keep 

 the market flooded with birds and eggs. It 

 does not seem to have occurred to him that 

 this may also be the case with vegetables, 

 and he is probably unfamiliar with the expe- 

 riences of Long Island farmers who from 

 farms, within the city limits of New York, 

 have taken load after load of perishable crops 

 to market, only to get the barest sum for 

 them, while many a time they have been de- 

 stroyed or thrown away as valueless. 



The fact is farming, especially for the new 

 and untried man, is beset with countless dif- 

 ficulties and is more likely to contain failures 

 than successes. The figures of possible in- 

 comes accumulated by the statisticians are 

 veritable towers of strength and encourage- 

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 verse. Mr. Hall is alive to these conditions 

 in a limited way, but his book would, of 

 course, never have been written had he re- 

 garded them as matters of the first considera- 

 tion. There is enthusiasm in what he writes, 

 and his method is quite distinct from that of 

 other writers on this broad subject. It is 

 not intended as a guide to agriculture, but 

 to arouse interest in it. It will hardly do that 

 without leading the reader further a-field, 

 and it is unfortunately the case that it is the 

 rosy side of this life which Is represented in 

 books of this sort rather than the opposite. 

 It is a picture that has two sides, and both 

 sides should be studied before it is too late. 



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