Lessons of Today (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lessons of Today A common measure of the supposed decline of farming is the fact that many farms can now be purchased for less than the buildings cost. This statement of itself does not appeal to me as having any special significance. A property is likely to sell for what it is worth, and this worth depends on its effectiveness as an economic unit or enterprise. Most of the buildings on farms were erected as much as a generation ago when the ideas of farming were radically different from those of the present day. It is doubtful whether most of these buildings were ever really effective even for the old kind of agriculture. At all events, few of them are adapted to the business that we must now conduct on the land. Many a farm would be worth more with the buildings off than with them on, for they would not then stand in the way of real betterment. Buildings are not permanent attachments to land and should not be so regarded. A countryman is always impressed, when he goes to the great cities, with the fact that buildings still in a good state of preservation are torn down to make place for new ones. These demolished buildings may not even be very old, but they are ineffective for present day business and it is unprofitable to keep them. The coming business of farming will demand a wholly new type of building in order to make the property effective, and we must overcome our habit of harking back to the time when the present buildings were erected. Every good farm ought to pay for itself all over again, land, buildings and all, every generation. Barns and other business buildings that were erected forty or fifty years ago should owe the farm nothing by this time. My hearer must realize the fact that we are beginning a new agriculture, not continuing an old one. 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.