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It was still a thrill to see that daily fast freight go through. That part of the country was just starting to be exploited.

All those parts were short of labor, short of stoop labor. The Mexicans would do it. All around the San Joaquin Valley in California the Japanese did it. Where they had once been unwelcome they become welcome because they would do the stoop labor on these great factory-like farms.

Yet the whole process is so integrated with purely agricultural questions of what land should be abandoned, what land should be fertilized and worked and how, what crops should be grown in what areas, how to take the real estate speculating out of farm economy and farm life. Those are not industrial, labor questions. Those are agricultural questions. How to make a proper balance between animals and crops? How to raise more than one crop? I never had known that any farmer raised one crop exclusively until I began to hear from Wallace and Tugwell that was the thing that was the matter with our agriculture. The one crop farm and one crop way of life was what made this poverty, even so that the individual farmer was poverty stricken in his own personal life. He didn't have a good house and didn't have proper food. It never occurred to me that a person could live on a farm