Language: English
Published by The Century Company, NY, 1917
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: VG. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 6 photographs, faded water-staining at page bottoms, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XCIV, No. 4, August, 1917. The trend toward abandoning farms and farming. The author was Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York. Illustrations include the house of a settler, a homestead on the Yuma Reclamation Claim in California, another home of a settler, a country school in Australia, and a settler's shack. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.