. The Press and the plow . >.. ^1 tropical field and lis fanners. farmers fairs and farmers organizations for mutual protection andencouragement, tiie application of business-like methods in pro-duction and distribution, the establishment of governmentI bureaus and experiment stations. Above all, there has been the surety to thousands of enterprising men of quickly and cheaply securing publicity for their inventions and products, for every new variety of seed, plant, fruit, poultry, and live stock, through the advertising columns of the rural press. The demands of every rural household have


. The Press and the plow . >.. ^1 tropical field and lis fanners. farmers fairs and farmers organizations for mutual protection andencouragement, tiie application of business-like methods in pro-duction and distribution, the establishment of governmentI bureaus and experiment stations. Above all, there has been the surety to thousands of enterprising men of quickly and cheaply securing publicity for their inventions and products, for every new variety of seed, plant, fruit, poultry, and live stock, through the advertising columns of the rural press. The demands of every rural household have trebled in the fifty-three years under consideration, demands increased as much by the mental stimulus of the farm paper as by the abilitv to buv, which has come with the increased income of the farm, and the facility of purchase which the advertising columns have afixjrded. We believe that the true index of a nations prosperity is its agricultural condition and its agriculturalpress ; in proportion as farm papers are few, or la


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