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Title: A Living from the Land

Author: William B. Duryee

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A LIVING FROM THE LAND

[Illustration: (_Frontispiece_)

Country homes backed by intensive types of agriculture serve modern human
needs.]

A LIVING
FROM THE LAND

BY
WILLIAM B. DURYEE, M.Sc.

_Secretary of Agriculture,
State of New Jersey_

WHITTLESEY HOUSE
McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC.
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1934

_Copyright, 1934, by the_ MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC.

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be
reproduced in any form without permission of the publishers.

THIRD PRINTING

PUBLISHED BY WHITTLESEY HOUSE
A division of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

_Printed in the United States of America by The Maple Press Co.,
York, Pa._

_To my friend_
HENRY W. JEFFERS

PREFACE

Homesteading days are here again. The present movement of people back to
the land is of a different type and has different objectives from those
which prevailed when a continent was to be conquered and exploited. Today
we know that many urban industries will operate on a seasonal basis and we
know too that periods of unemployment and shorter working days will
provide more leisure and probably lower incomes for hundreds of thousands
of families. The utilization of this leisure time to supplement incomes,
to raise the standards of living and of health, and to attain some measure
of economic security will tend more and more to settlement on the land.

In these days of rapid transportation and all the attributes and
conveniences of modern country life, the hardships of the earlier period
of land development are non-existent. Although urban industrial
de