CONCLUSIONS, General, SUMMING UP, chap. lli, 308; the facts set forth in the essays, 308; common misrepresentations, 308-9; object of the author in writing these essays, 309; the propositions sought to be established therein, 310; good farming must ever be a paying business, 310; thorough tillage advocated, 310; a location should be permanent, 310; the too great haste in incurring responsibilities, 311; the greed for land, 310; common abuses in fencing and cattle-raising, 312-13; tree-cutting and tree-planting, 314-15; underdraining, 315; irrigation, 316; commercial fertilizers, 317-8-9; shallow culture, 319-20; the need for study and inquiry, 320-21; concluding remarks, 321. CO-OPERATION, reference to, in regard to wild lands, 24; CO-OPERATION IN FARMING, CHAP. XLII, 248; Co-operation is the word of hope and cheer for labor, 248; its meaning, 248; differs radically from communism, 248; the difficulties of a young farmer who migrates to Kansas, Minnesota or one of the Territories, 248-9; the different circumstances consequent on settlement by co-operation, 250; advantages of co-operation not limited to colonizing distant tracts, 250; would benefit colored men, 250-1; fencing as an illustration of the loss consequent on want of co-operation, 251-2; how co-operation would remedy it, 252; further application of the system, 252-3; Mr. E. V. de Boissiere's co-operative farming, 254-5.