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Title: Solaris Farm
A Story of the Twentieth Century

Author: Milan C. Edson

Release Date: February 23, 2010 [eBook #31373]

Language: English

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SOLARIS FARM;

A Story of the Twentieth Century.

by

MILAN C. EDSON.

Published by the Author
at
1728 New Jersey Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C.
In the Year 1900.

Press Work by Byron S. Adams.

[Illustration: CAPTAIN MILAN C. EDSON.]

Copyright, 1900
by Milan C. Edson.
All Rights Reserved.

DEDICATION.

This book, is dedicated to the sons and daughters of the farms of the
Republic as an expression of the author's realization, that Agricultural
people constitute a large majority of its working units: That as such,
its destiny is in the hands of their boys and girls, as its future
guardians, fathers and mothers: That for the reasons stated, they should
become its dominant thinkers and leaders: That Agriculture is the true
basis of industrial and commercial success; hence, it should be made the
most noble and pleasing of all occupations: That the alarming
encroachments of land monopoly, and the inability of the small farm to
meet the expense of using the latest and best machinery, threatens the
total extinction of all land-owning farmers, and of their consequent
reduction to the de