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REAL BONANZA FARMING
REAL BONANZA FARMING
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY WEBSTER

REAL BONANZA FARMING

Day by day the big wheat farms of the old time are being split up into farm homes, the average size of which grows less and less. In the heart of the valley, a tract of 640 acres which had been owned and operated by a single farmer up to the year 1910 is today supporting forty-two families, every one of them faring better than the original owner fared

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