Show FOR efficiency IN FARMING big corporations might succeed but at expense of nations foundation A dream of the day when american Amerl cin farming shall be taken from the hands of the small bungling farmer nud and put into large business hands of high efa efficiency was spread before the minnesota conference on oil rural life by pr resident sj vincent lie sees tile lie farn lands operated scientifically and in large units by corporate owners the farm home converted into a modern city home machinery lightening both labor and transportation and factories utilizing the farmers time that now Is wasted in wet and chilly weather the saying saving under consolidated management of material that now Is wasted under untrained individual ownership might support a one third larger population in greater comfort than tit at present we are the lie most wasteful of peoples in the north t temperate em zone and the time will soon come when the average american will be compelled to adopt wiser methods of dealing with his land or give up his land but to take over the farm owning traction fraction of the american people hire it think for it house and cure care for it manage and market its goods would be to lose an educative force with which the nation can ill III afford to part tile the sense of ownership distributed among many individuals has been nit an element clement of moral strength that has proved dependable in time of 0 great national stress minneapolis journal |