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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Living from the Land, by William B. Duryee This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Living from the Land Author: William B. Duryee Release Date: July 3, 2010 [EBook #33060] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LIVING FROM THE LAND *** Produced by David Clarke and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) 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
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