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be found; it must come, if at all, out of the enthusiasm of 

 interested workers. God pity the man on the farm, large or 

 small, who chafes at the requirements and hates the work. 

 Men talk of drudgery of farm life, its false friends. There is 

 no drudgery to him who, looking for results, seeks mastery 

 over details. I pity the man on a farm who has not before 

 him, continually, as an inspiration, the picture of the home he 

 would have; fields bending under the load of abundant har- 

 vests ; trees reaching out their branches that they may take on 

 more fruit; the garden ripening, from early spring to latest 

 harvest, the best, healthiest, most nutritious and valuable of 

 all products of earth, who does not feel impelled, day by day, 

 to reach out after greater dominion over all growing things, 

 whose animals, generation after generation, are not steadily 

 increasing in all the essentials of profitable husbandry ; who, 

 day and night, cannot walk over his acres, conscious that out 

 of his own resources he is building on a foundation which will 

 endure and preparing to leave the world a little better than he 

 found it. To such a man the appeal comes with force to make 

 of himself and his acres all that is possible and returns are 

 ample. 



There are thousands of small farms scattered all over the 

 state, near to lake, or mountain or village, where city people 

 congregate in increasing numbers, year by year, every one of 

 which might be a profitable investment, returning yearly an 

 income sufficient for a small family and insuring freedom from 

 worry, care and future support not possible in any other field 

 of labor. 



New England does not produce one-tenth of the eggs and 

 poultry required to supply the Boston market ; and with many 

 other products the per cent is still higher. Yet the cry goes up 

 that there is no chance for a young man on a farm. No man 

 on a small farm need fail of earning a good living, and more, 

 provided he knows the purchasing power of a dollar, is fairly 

 industrious, the location reasonably good and the line of breed- 

 ing and cropping adapted to the land and the man. Men do 

 fail, everywhere, because they are misfits, for want of that 

 business sagacity which alone wins success in any industry. 

 We need a thorough awakening to a realization of our oppor- 

 tunities and possibilities. You need this. I need it, that we 

 may go back to our farms, larger or smaller, filled with the 



