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Show THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE FRONTIER A young college professor who was suffering from 111 health recently mado an effort to find n farm proposition propo-sition at a moderato price Ho spent several months looking at many properties prop-erties in tho western states. Ho had Uttlo monoy nnd found nothing that ho felt llko buying on mortgage Tho farms offered for moderato prices pric-es all had defects. Wntor rights woro often unsatisfactory, or tho molsturo was too uncertain. Fruit orchards frequently suffored from somo pest. Plenty of good farms wero offered him, but at prices ho ca'led prohlbltlvo for him. Tho professor was Bo discouraged by theso obstacles that ho went Into Cnnndo, and spent Bovernl months In somo of tho nower sections now being opened to settlement. It seemed to him that It would tako a wholo generation gen-eration to get thcso now lands into profitable propositions, with comfort-ablo comfort-ablo living conditions. Ho felt tho Canadian governments were much to blnrao for holding out too llnttorlng hopos for ploneors. He advised settlers to stay In tho Unit ed States whero tho obstacles, serl-y ous ns thoy nre, nro not ns dlscour-nglng. dlscour-nglng. With such conditions ns theso ox-Isttng, ox-Isttng, It Is not surprising that there Is an urgent demand for a system of rural credits that will lend money mon-ey on farm land at lower rates. Illusory Il-lusory hopes may and no doubt are, entertalnod, of what can ho dono by n farm credit system. P.utt the country coun-try Is In great need of somo method meth-od by which young snen who wan, farms, can secure thorn hnder favor-nbo favor-nbo conditions, without assuming Buch heavy Interest burdens. Tho frontier has disappeared, good land costs high and buying a farm Is not tho easy affair It was n few years ago. |