. Agriculture and the farming business . h thefarmer well, and are willing to advance his prosperity, notalone because they are interested in the farmer as a socialequal and a fellow citizen, but because they recognize thatthey must ultimately go back to the tiller of the soil forfood, shelter and practically all the comforts of life. Theywant the farmer to raise larger and better crops, producemore and better stock, and himself be happy and prosperousbecause of the inevitable prosperity that it brings to allothers. Economic interest centered in farm.—At the presenttime \Ve are told that the A
. Agriculture and the farming business . h thefarmer well, and are willing to advance his prosperity, notalone because they are interested in the farmer as a socialequal and a fellow citizen, but because they recognize thatthey must ultimately go back to the tiller of the soil forfood, shelter and practically all the comforts of life. Theywant the farmer to raise larger and better crops, producemore and better stock, and himself be happy and prosperousbecause of the inevitable prosperity that it brings to allothers. Economic interest centered in farm.—At the presenttime \Ve are told that the American population is increasingmany times faster than is the production of our food sup-plies. During the last twenty years the cost of living haspractically doubled. If this continue for the next decade,it will be difficult to judge the economic and socialconsequences. It is, therefore, important that every acreof land in the United States be made increasingly efficient,to produce more and better food. And this means AGRICULTURE AND. THE FARMING BUSINESS 9 intensive farming; but this does not necessarily bar exteji-sive farming. Tliere is yet a large area of our land untouched by thehand of tillage. On these barren acres, which science andbusiness enterprise will yet make fruitful, there is room forthousands of those who are now living in filth, poverty andobscurity in the congested centers of our large cities. Butthey must be able to possess themselves of the promisedland—they must be trained to the business of farming. Unclaimed resources.—So also in the southern states,where the growing season is long, rainfall plentifuland where every conceivable kind of food will grow andthrive, there is only a comparatively small percentage of thetotal area of the land under cultivation. When one travelsover these areas of untilled acres which will surely one daybe the garden spot of America, he can not but feel that somevery definite policy should be adopted toward offering tothe
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