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Excerpt from The Problem of the Indifferent Farmer All this line of development I s to be so. Simple, and therein is one of the greatest difficulties - qt is its simplicity that makes it so difficult. If we could present a problem more intricate and more daring, we could expect to set the people '0 its solution. Look over the great problems that have attract the people of inuence, the people of initiative power. The pec_ who control the creative forces and the distribution of wealth. This simple problem of stirring up the indifferent tanner to activity does not as yet _appeal to the people as it deserves. Here are two areas of land, ten million acres each in extent. The one is occupied by farmers, good, bad and indifferent. The other area is unoccupied, it is as nature made tt, _hat it is five hundred miles away. Two questions arise - shall we develop the agriculture of the occupied area. Double its production, double its population, and again double its production: or shall we set to work to build a railroad to that unoccupied land, there to repeat the experience of the former section - farmers. Good, bad and indifferent? You know, what would he done. Millions would be available for the more daring proposition and thousands only for the other. 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.