CONTENTS
I. The Lure of the Land 3
II. Agriculture a Learned Profession 11
III. The Boomers and the Boomees 18
IV. The Born-on-the-Farm Myth 28
V. The Dairy the Hope of the Small Farmer 35
VI. The Farmer's Wife versus the Dairy Cow 41
VII. The Orchard a Recreation and Sometimes a Source of Profit 46
VIII. Health on the Farm 53
IX. Farm Labor 61
X. Prohibition for the Farmer 69
XI. Is the Small Farmer to Disappear? 78
XII. The Place of the Farmer in the Social Scale 86
XIII. The Farmer's Market 92
XIV. The Farmer and the Parcel Post 100
XV. Business Methods in Farming 114
XVI. Farm Finance 119
XVII. "Back to the Farm!" 145
XVIII. Power on the Farm 160
XIX. Agricultural Wastes 167
XX. The Genesis of the Soil and its Possibilities 173
XXI. What is Becoming of our Soils? 208
XXII. The Fertility of the Soil 226
XXIII. Dry Farming 237
XXIV. The Function of Water in Agriculture 244
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XXV. The Decreasing Meat Supply 252
XXVI. Statistics Relating to Animals on Farms 269
XXVII. The True Relation of Science to the Industries and Arts 274
XXVIII. Uncle Sam's Big Farm 324
XXX. A Tribute to Squanto 340
Index 359
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