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not  grow  more  efficient,  because  the  larger 
the  cities  grow  the  more  useless  jobs 
must  be  provided  for  white-collar  workers. 
No  one  benefits  from  the  immense  growth 
of  the  cities  except  the  land  owners,  the 
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lies  which  sooner  or  later  come  to  control 
trade  in  necessities.  We  who  live  in 
commuter  towns  come  to  understand  this 
better  than  others,  for  we  can  see  how 
the  vast  army  of  handlers  live  and  work. 
Ever  since  the  beginning  of  the  nation 
this  fierce  struggle  of  the  farmer  against 
the  handlers  has  gone  on.  In  the  early 
history  of  this. country  one  of  the  greatest 
of  industrial  struggles  was  to  find  a  cash', 
crop  with  which  to  do  business  with  Eng¬ 
land.  The  Spanish  colonies  sent  silver, 
gold  and  other  metals  and  sugar  to  Eu¬ 
rope,  but  there  were  few  metals  in  this 
country,  and  at  that  time  England  was 
quite  well  supplied  with  erain.  Tobacco 
served  as  a  cash  product  for  the1  Southern 
colonies,  but  it  was  estimated  that  one 
man  working  on  tobacco  in  Virginia  gave 
employment  to  four  Englishmen — that  is, 
sailors,  merchants  and  laborers  who 
handled  the  tobacco.  The  farmer  in  that 
day  got  a  20-cent  dollar,  and  tip  to  the 
time  of  the  Revolution  the  situation  grew 
worse  as  the  army  of  handlers  increased. 
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As  for  the  competition  which  these 
commuters  give,  it  really  amounts  to  con¬ 
siderable.  Many  of  them  have  a  small 
place  with  a  garden,  a  few  hens  and  fruit 
trees.  Some  of  them  will  keep  a  cow, 
buying  all  hay  and  grain,  but  that  is  sel¬ 
dom  profitable.  As  the  milk  goat  is  de¬ 
veloped  I  think  thousands  of  these  little 
animals  will  be  found  in  commuters’ 
towns.  There  will  be  so  many  of  them 
that  the  output  of  milk  will  have  quite 
a  little  effect,  upon  the  dairy  business  and 
will  increase  the  demand  for  hay...  The 
gentleman  farmer  usually  growls  his  crops 
at  a  loss,  but  the  commuter  must  figure 
closely,  and  he  often  has  a  very  superior 
garden  which  supplies  most  of  the  family 
vegetables  and  small  fruits.  As  the  land 
farther  out  from  the  city  is  taken  up  for 
homes,  I  think  these  gardens  will  develop, 
and  that  more  and  more  eggs  and  bulky 
vegetable  food  will  be  produced — to  that 
extent  lessening  the  demand  for  that  class 
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The  City  Farmer’s  Crops 
Mr.  Rempter,  page  469,  after  describ¬ 
ing  himself  as  a  man  who  makes  his 
money  in  the  city  and  spends  it  on  his 
farm,  suggests  that  that  is  a  very  good 
way  to  spend  money.  I  sawr  the  same 
suggestion  made  in  the  American  Maga¬ 
zine  at  greater  length  some  years  ago. 
The  suggestion  on  first  thought  seems  so 
right  and  proper  that  it  is  not  surprising 
it  passes  without  question.  Yet  I  think 
it  is  made  without  due  consideration  of 
all  that  it  may  -involve,  and  opens  up  a 
good  subject  for  discussion  by  the  editor 
and  readers  of  The  R.  N.-Y.  For  the 
growing  number  of  wealthy  men  who 
maintain  extensive  farms  on  which  they 
produce  farm  crops  at  a  loss  that  they 
are  willing  to  make  up  much  as  they  pay 
for  their  golf  and  other  amusements 
makes  this  matter  an  important  one  to 
the  men  who  look  to  farming  for  a  living. 
I  .am  sure  that  Mr.  Rempter  sees  noth¬ 
ing  unfair  in  his  suggestion,  yet  if  he 
were  to  apply  it  to  his  own  business  he 
would  see  some  serious  objections  to  it. 
Say  he  is  a  shoe  dealer ;  he  would  hardly 
feel  content  to  have  a  man  with  a  great 
deal  of  surplus  means  open  a  shoe  store 
near  him  just  for  the  interest  of  it.  with 
no  concern  to  make  it  pay,  and  a  willing¬ 
ness  to  subsidize  it  year  after  year.  In 
one  way  or  another  it  would  affect  him. 
Assuming  that  he  could  not  sell  his  shoes 
for  more  than  the  other  man.  nor  buy 
them  for  less,  it  would  mean  that  he.  too, 
would  be  forced  to  do  business  at  a  loss. 
It  applies  equally  to  farming,  and  while, 
of  course,  there  is  no  question  as  to  a 
man’s  legal  right  to  spend  money  in  this 
way,  there  seems  to  me  to  be  a  decided 
question  as  to  his  moral  right  to  do  so. 
It  is  a  question,  too,  whether  it  is  sound 
policy  from  the  standpoint  of  his  city 
interests.  Our  experience  in  the  last  few 
years  has  demonstrated  pretty  clearly 
that  it  is  very  difficult  to  achieve  business 
and  trade  prosperity  when  the  mass  of 
farmers  are  suffering  a  depression ;  so 
that  to  the  extent  that  subsidized  farming 
interferes  with  profitable  farming  by  the 
men  who  depend  on  it,  it  ultimately  hurts 
the  city  business  man  and  the  city  worker. 
It  is,  of  course,  a  bad  thing  that  so 
many  people  are  led  to  waste  their  money 
on  fake  stocks,  yet  imagine  the  result  if 
that  huge  total  were  applied  indiscrimi¬ 
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under  present  conditions.  B.  kirson. 
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“Plant  your  corn,  and  forget 
all  about  the  crows” — 
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us  to  broadcast  to  the  thousands  of  corn-growers  all  over  the  country.  Mr. 
Tyler,  like  every  other  corn-grower,  had  been  losing  hill  after  hill  of  corn. 
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