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Show AMERICAN FARMERS ARE HAPPIER THAN EUROPE'S A recent traveler returning from a visit to France, Belgium and Germany Ger-many expressed himself as being particularly par-ticularly impressed at how greatly the prosperity of the agricultural classes of America exceeds that In European countries. In the portions of Europe he visited the farms belong to the peasant class; they wear wooden shoes, they are poorly dressed, they seldom have an automobile, and their homes are rarely equipped with the i modern conveniences. Sanitary conditions con-ditions are far from Ideal. The farms are small, they seldom change hands, aud the fnrmsrs supply their own wants largely from what they grow on the farm. While they sell some produce the amount of business done by any one Individual is compara tively small. It is seldom that the farmer has a checking account at the bank With us conditions are quite different The farmer without en automobile is the exception. One reason for this contrast Id the con-d'tlons con-d'tlons -f the farmers on the two sUIof of the Atlantic is that our fertile fer-tile and comparatively chnp soil ' - -"liabled u o produce enormc. crops. America farmlnR ! Rig Bust-uess. Bust-uess. I |