Millard County Chronicle | 1915-09-09 | Page 5 | [Untitled]

: LIVING OFF PRINCIPAL j The farmers or this country ' have been living, not upon the interest from their investments. J ; but upon their principal; am . whatever measure of apparent J I prosperity they have li. li in favored localities has Been 1 '. largely taken from their capital I ; stock. . . . The boastful state- 1 '. nient that the American land- j ; owner has become a scientific 5 f . farmer is as erroneous as it 1s 1 optimistic. Almost every effort J I by the American farmer has re- J suited in decreasing the fertility 1 of the soil. Dr. Cyril G. Hop- i kins. J