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A commercial apple orchard in Nebraska ... Frontispiece
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1. The old-time loom and spinning wheels ... 4
2. The modern loom ... 4
3. Old-time dairy methods ... 5
4. Where the cost of land improvement is heavy ... 12
5. The dairy room ... 13
6. Insufficient labour and equipment ... 16
7. Over-capitalisation in buildings ... 17
8. Under-capitalisation in buildings ... 18
9. A good farm woodlot ... 19
10. The sugar-bush ... 30
11. Poultry helps to solve the winter labour problem ... 31
12. Winter is the time for putting all implements in repair ... 32
13. A neat farm tenement house ... 33
14. The way the city business man economises team labour ... 38
15. Harvesting corn by hand ... 39
16. The corn harvester at work ... 42
17. Where efficiency is the determining factor ... 43
18. The potato digger ... 48
19. Waiting for a tenant ... 49
20. A type of country school to be avoided ... 54
21. Neighbours signify much more in farm life than in city or village life ... 55
22. A farmers' gathering ... 58
23. A highway lined with maple trees ... 59
24. A farm where the surface contour is bad ... 64
25. Where surface contour is good ... 64
26. Too large a proportion of waste land ... 65
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27. A modest but attractive farm home ... 68
28. An unattractive farm house ... 69
29. The haying equipment on an ordinary mixed farm ... 76
30. Additional haying equipment which special farming will warrant ... 77
31. Extensive and intensive methods with the hay crop ... 86
32. Making the potato crop a specialty ... 87
33. A full equipment is warranted ... 90
34. A small investment ... 91
35. The farmer's old age ... 100
36. Farming as a business investment directly financed by the owner ... 101
37. Farming as a business investment on the share-rental system ... 102
38. The farmer's place of work ... 103
39. The business man's place of work ... 106
40. A neat farm home built from materials furnished by the farm ... 107
41. Each child can be given an opportunity for some enterprise of his own ... 108
42. A long hill but easy grades and a good macadam road make it easily climbed ... 109
43. A steep hill ... 128
44. Marketing at retail ... 129
45. Marketing at wholesale ... 144
46. An apple tree in fruit ... 145
47. Where appreciation takes the place of depreciation ... 148
48. Students considering the depreciation on a silage cutter exposed to the weather ... 149
49. Where depreciation is heavy ... 156
50. Inventory cards ... 157
51. One cow's record ... 196
52. One cow's record ... 197
53. Small fields ... 204
54. Diagram of small fields ... 204
Illustrations xiii
55. Diagram of fencing problem for a 100-acre farm ... 204
56. Inconvenient location of buildings and well ... 205
57. Cooperative ownership ... 208
58. Filling the silo ... 209
59. A cooperative cheese factory ... 212
60. A profitable cooperative creamery ... 213
61. Marketing cheese from the cooperative factory ... 220
62. The chief factor on the dairy farm ... 221
63. Grain growing ... 224
64. Poultry farming at Little Compton, R.I. ... 225
65. A profitable hay field kept continuously in grass ... 254
66. Modern implements ... 255
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