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"Who is we?" Graham inquired

"Oh, I have a committee of farm experts on it--my own men, with the exception of Professor Lieb, who is: theyto the scientific methods embodied in our instructions The land is unifor is like a pea in the pod to every other holding The results of each holding will speak in no uncertain terh laziness or stupidity, e result of the entire two hundred and fifty faro, convicted by the average of their fellows

"It's a fair deal No farrow and he and his family may consuood seasons and bad, stupid or intelligent, of at least a hundred dollars a month The stupid and the inefficient will be bound to be elient and the efficient That's all It will deeance And there is uaranty After the salary is paid, the adventure must yield six per cent, to me If more than this is achieved, then the entire hundred per cent, of the additional achieveoes to the faro in hiood--I see," said the Gazette man "And why not? Hundred- dollar jobs aren't picked up for the asking The average farmer in the United States doesn't net fifty a es of superintendence and of direct personal labor are subtracted Of course able men ork their heads off to hold to such a proposition, and they'll see to it that every member of the family does the same"

"'Tis the one objection I have to this place," Terrence McFane, who had just joined the group, announced "Ever one hears but the one thing--work 'Tis repulsive, the thought of the work, each on his twenty acres, toilin' and ht till dark, and after dark-- an' for what? A bit of meat, a bit of bread, and, maybe, a bit of jam on the bread An' to what end? Isof life, the goal of existence? Surely the man will die, like a work horse dies, after a life of toil And what end has been accomplished? Bread an' meat an' jam? Is that it? A full belly and shelter from the cold till one's body drops apart in the dark rave?"