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NEW  YORK,  FEBRUARY  26,  1016, 
A  Bunch  of  Back  to  the  Land  Notes 
my  husband  a  “new.”  “There’s  a  difference.”  T  can  cream,  eggs  and 
beat  him  any  day  at  using  the  hoe  and  ax.  We  kept  at  home  for 
have  experimented  in  a  small  way  and  expect  soon  often  receive  five 
rise  Mr.  Morse’s  figures  to  the  to  go  on  our  own  place.  If  L.  A.  G.  goes  in  without  eggs  than  our  loci 
L.  A.  G.  in  the  Dec.  IS  issue  practical  knowledge  he  may  “fall  down”  and  get  an  er  pays  the  freigl 
1  have  waited  to  see  if  others  awful  bump.  well-wisher.  have  had  a  sugar 
s.  I  am  surprised  at  the  weak  Ion  for  our  syrup, 
s  it  back.  One  would  think  he  as  one  roug  1  e  *  cents  per  gallon  tc 
b  to  manage  a  farm  for  a  man  I  am  inclined  to  take  the  stand  of  “back-to-the-  here,  while  the  lo 
turn.”  If  he  could  reverse  him-  land”  that  Mrs.  F.  C.  J.  does  on  page  205.  If  every  gallon  in  bulk.  Y 
me  of  the  visionary  papers  who  “back-to-the-lander”  would  have  to  have  $4,500  to  shall  make  this  y< 
md”  what  a  hit  he  could  make,  start  with,  there  would  be  very  few  of  them.  In  The  hired  man 
iy  young  farmers  began  with  1008  my  husband  and  his'  brother  rented  a  farm  of  quite  a  degree  if 
or  how  many  have  always  paid  140  acres.  They  had  four  purebred  Holstein  heifers  money  they  pay 
tiling  where  they  were  known  and  a  very  small  flock  of  purebred  Merino  Delaine  saving  devices.  V 
ash?  Then  why  not  depend  on  sheep,  also  an  old  team.  The  first  year  they  bought  ing  and  haying,  1 
dr  feed  hill  as  they  go  along?  a  very  well-bred  herd  sire.  They  bought  farming  modern  Implemen 
something  like  $2,500  for  stock  tools  along  as  they  could  and  they  were  paid  for  pumping  water  i 
of  dealers  would  like  the  con-  $10,  $15  or  $25  at  a  time.  My  husband  bought  a  separating  the  mi 
A  Farm  Woman’s  Plain  Sense 
In  reading  the  letter  of  Mrs.  F.  C. 
J..  on  page  205,  in  which  she  gives 
points  on  “hack-to-th e-land”  for  L.  A. 
(1.,  it  strikes  me  that  neither  she  nor 
.7.  Grant  Morse  have  hit  upon  the  vital 
point.  That  seems  to  me  to  be — is  L. 
A.  G.  a  "back  to-tbe-laiuler”  pr  a  “new- 
to-the-land”  man?  If  he  is  “new”  he 
could  not  possibly  follow  her  advice. 
Suppose  be  had  never  even  seen  a  cow 
milked.  Just  picture  him  milking  one 
cow,  to  say  nothing  of  five,  without  a 
practical  hired  man.  And  imagine  him 
buying  second-hand  tools  from  an  un¬ 
scrupulous  person.  Imagine  the  butter 
he  would  make  and  finally  think  of  a 
city  man  without  even  one  month's  ex¬ 
perience  trying  to  work  even  a  few 
