Excerpt from Wealth From the Soil
There are substantial and impelling reasons for the publication of a book like "Wealth From the Soil." This volume was written to serve as a stimulus to the agricultural interests of America, but more particularly as an aid to the many town people who wish to become farmers and land owners.
It is feasible for city men and women to take land and engage in farming. If they apply to agriculture those principles which make for success in commercial affairs they will succeed on the land. Specific knowledge of farming will be acquired in due time, and every family that moves from the city to the country is helping to solve the greatest of our sociological and economic questions.
When I wrote the book entitled "Making the Farm Pay," I saw the urgent need of a direct and inspirational appeal to farmers to place themselves in line with commercial progress. That work is successful beyond expectations and is performing a useful service, but it had not been long from the press when I discovered that town people were buying it quite extensively and showing fully as much interest in agricultural questions as the farmers themselves. Dwellers in cities are not only buying farm literature but they are reading it and studying it in the public libraries as never before. This is because they are dissatisfied with their present environments and desire a radical change from the conditions of life now confronting the average family in a city. There are many such persons who realize that they would be better off on farms and in fact that their sole chance of reaching a state of independence rests in their acquirement of land.
Thousands, therefore, are turning to rural life and thousands more like them are yearning for land ownership and homes in the country.
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