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than a dollar for some. That kind of havinj]^ and holding does not 

 pay. 



I would like to say a few words about keeping the boys and girls 

 on the farm. We know of instances where it is the parent's fault 

 directly that they do not stay longer at home than they do. The 

 farmer boy is too often made to drudge and work without any vaca- 

 tion or holidays or any other time. A boy should have something 

 to call his own; a calf or a pig each year will keep him in spirits; but 

 too often, if an animal is given, when it is grown up it belongs to the 

 old "gent," and will make him a little extra money. 



Farmers, give your boys the best you have ; don't think you did not 

 have it better, and it will do your children also. If you want to keep 

 the boys and girls on the farm give them a chance. 



A few old Plow-Point Proverbs : 



"A mortgage on the farm is harder to dig out than a sod of wire 

 grass." 



"Not every egg is sound that seems so; and a lame horse makes 

 a lame farmer." 



"Waste leads to want, want leads to woe, before you start con- 

 sider which way you go." 



"A weak fence makes a weak farmer; don't let the noon-hour eat 

 up the other ten." 



"If you have a jumping cow, fix a pickle barrel for her to jump 

 into, and she won't jump long." 



"Eats in the crib gives the team pain in the ribs." 



"Little seeds make tall weeds; but tall weeds make short corn." 



"Elbow grease and self-denial will make a farmer rich on trial." 



"Keep a cat for a rat and the pig will get fat." 



KNOWING; FOR WHAT PURPOSE? 



BY HOWARD ROBBINS. PotUgrove, Pa. 



READ AT POTTSGROVE INSTITUTE, NORTHUMBERLAND CO., FEB. 8, 



1901. 



I am a believer in the possibility of attainment in the human 

 race. If a busy blacksmith can make himself the master of many 

 ancient and modern languages; if a poor farmer-grocer-rail splitter 

 can become, without going to school, a lawyer, congressman and 

 President of the United States; if a man seventy years of age, by 

 using spare moments can become a noted lawyer; if a young man 

 with a dollar for capital can become one of the great merchants of 



