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Title: The school and farm. A treatise on the elements of agriculture
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eggert, Charles Agugustus, 1853- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Chicago, W. M. Welch & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e of comfort or risk of exposure.Our constantly extending and spreading net of rail-ways will gradually put a good market within a rea-sonable distance of almost any farm, so that this ob-jection also will have less weight as the years go by. This is the century of electricity, as the last centurywas that of steam. We may soon see electric road- DRAWBACKS IN FARMING. 41 ways, the trolley, the telephone and other electrical ap-paratus, connecting districts now isolated from eachother. All this is in the future, perhaps in the near On I CfQ1 Mm ^Pi ^ \ 1; 1 / 1 4 K^t^ i:. 1 i ; H^^n f ! .i^J^t-. w ^ * /^B^^^ ^ ^ * ^i ^.:l. tI^S i. -^ future, but it is necessary that public sentiment bearoused among the farmers themselves to hasten theapproach of these new aids of civilization and socialhappiness. 42 THE BASIS AND CONDITIONS OF FARMING. The general government has largely introduced ruraldelivery of the mails, and will continue to do so.(Figs. 6 and 7.) This is a great step toward some of
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u o pcrW inI the most important advantages of town life. The out-look for comfort and convenience in farm life is de-cidedly encouraging. CHAPTER VI. THE VALUE OF MARKETS. If all men were farmers great poverty of the entirenation v^oiild be unavoidable. Purely agriculturalcountries are always lowest in civilization and inwealth. Agriculture in such countries cannot rise tothe dignity of a scientific pursuit, for there would be noincentive to increase production. The farmer needsmarkets, and this means that there must be people whoare not farmers, who will buy what he raises. It is oneof the most dangerous mistakes for the farmer to seein the growth of manufacturing industry a menace toagriculture, or to regret that towns and cities growand wealth accumulates in them. The more pros-perous the manufacturers are, and the wealthier thepeople who live in cities because of the presence ofvarious industries there, the more surely will thefarmer thrive. It is true that our exports to other co

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