Excerpt from Early to Bed and Early to Rise: Twenty Years in Hell With the Beef Trust, Facts, Not Fiction All my manhood life I have been dealing with farmers. Hence I became greatly interested in the efforts of Presi dent Roosevelt to better the conditions of the farming com munity, and I took the liberty to address him a letter, com mending his efforts and pointing out some ways in which I thought the good work he was interested in could be more effectually accomplished. That letter he referred to the Country Life Commission. The Commission replied by asking me to give them some additional information along the same line. This request reached me four days before I was to start on a trip through South America and Cuba, -so I had but a few days to pre pare the data asked for, but I complied with their request as best I could. 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.