human
Well, he said,
gpt
But think what that will mean to the price of wheat! It's bringing only a dollar and a half now. We can't raise it at a dollar.
human
It will break the careless, Harding said,
gpt
Then what good will it do? If the result is to be only mortgages?
human
Oh, but I said every _slack_ farmer. It will clear out the incompetent, improve our methods. The ox-team and the grass trail will have to go. We'll have steam gang-plows and graded roads. We'll have better machines all round.
gpt
And afterward?
human
Afterward? Then the men with brains and grit who have held on--the fittest, who have survived--will come into such prosperity as few farmers have ever had. America, with her population leaping up, will have less and less wheat to ship; England will steadily call for more; we'll have wheat at a price that will pay us well before we're through. Then there'll be no more dug-outs and log-shacks, but fine brick homesteads, with all the farms fenced and mechanical transport on the roads. It's coming, Fred! Those who live through the struggle will certainly see it.
gpt
But enough of that! If we're to get our homesteads up before the frost comes, we'll have to hustle.