Excerpt from The Farmer's Side: His Troubles and Their Remedy Is the farmer in trouble? To what extent? Is he really poor? How shall we know Is he worse off than men engaged in other lines of work By what rule shall we measure the rate of his progress? Let him but look at the world about him and note the contrasts. Let him hold up a mirror, if you please - a mirror which reflects what has passed, what is passing, and foreshadows what is yet to come. Look and think. Behold, compare, and learn. Follow the guide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.