Your Grandfather Read It, 
Your Father Read It, 
Are YOU Reading It? 
Buying the Farm 
“What would you consider these places adjoining yours worth?” 
“ About $30 an acre.” 
“ That is, if you, as a local man, went to buy them you could get them at $30 an acre?” 
“That’s it.”' 
“ Hut if I, as an outsider, went to buy them-.” 
“They’d probably size you up as from town, and ask you $80 to $100. I’ve known two 
or three places on this road where sales have been spoiled that way.” 
Meanwhile they have been in the hands of tenants for thirty years and have gone back in 
value from $150 and $200 to $20 and $30 .” 
“Yes, it’s that dog-in-the-manger policy that has hurt us.” 
Here is land lying in one of the most beautiful and fertile valleys of the section between the 
Hudson and Connecticut — a valley that used to be the seat of an old colonial aristocracy, where 
most of the buildings could not be replaced now for less than $20,000 or $3.0,000. 
If you have the least desire to own a bit of land of your own and think a farm beyond the dreams 
of avarice, you should read the series of six articles by A. C. Laut, telling about the bargains in old 
farms, on good roads, within a hundred miles of New York City, that can be picked up at from 
$10 to $50 an acre. A thousand dollars , actual cash 
A Living From the Farm 
Then, having the farm, if you want to know how to 
live and to make a living out of it, read Back to the Farm— 
Net, a five-part story of city dwellers who took a chance 
and made good in the country. 
The Net is what they got out of it — what you can get 
out of it: Instruction, health, comfort, contentment and a 
heritage of health for the children. 
The money end of it ? The author paints no iridescent 
rainbow, but concludes that a good many will succeed along 
a modest line of hard work, close personal attention, plan¬ 
ning one thing at a time and going ahead slowly, being on 
the job all the year round. A better living than you get in town 
and a job worth while. 
cart finance a 25-acre unimproved farm purchase. 
Dividends From the Farm 
For several years the Department of Agriculture, through 
its field agents, has been experimenting with various farms, 
with the owners’ cooperation, along the lines of system and 
efficiency. 
We are able to publish the results in a series of four 
articles, under the title Old Farms Made New. They 
tell how to replan a farm for economy in time and labor, as 
efficiency experts plan a factory. 
The difference is the difference between a deficit and 
dividends. 
If you actually become your own boss and work at get¬ 
ting a living out of the land, there’s no paper in the world 
you need so much as 
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