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care should be used on the immediate house wunoundinjjjs that we 

 are prone to lavish on our stock, aud on our crops in far away fields. 

 Make your homes attractive that when your children come to leave 

 them they may feel like exclaimiug with the poet: 



"Must I leave thee? thus leave 



Thee, native soil? These happy walks and shades. 



Fit haunt of gods, where I had hoped to spend. 



Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day 



That must be mortal to us both? Oh flowers, 



That never will in other climates grow. 



My early visitation and my last 



At even, which I bred up with tender hand 



From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, — 



Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank 



Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount? 



Thee lastly, nuptial bower, by me adorned 



With what to sight or smell was sweet — from thee 



How shall I part? and wither w'ander dow'n 



Into the lower world, to this obscure 



And wild, how shall we breathe in other air 



Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits?" 



MISINTERPEETATION OF TERM FARMER. 



BY KATE LOUISE TREXLER, Blandon, Pa. 



READ AT BLANDON INSTITUTE, BERKS CO., FEB. 15, 1901. 



Farming is an occupation of men, that involves the tillage of th^ 

 soil to such an extent that all the crops which are necessary to thf 

 sustenance of men and beast can be raised. The man that devote? 

 his time to the cultivation of these products receives the nam^ 

 farmer, which is derived from the term of the occupation. 



Farmers, like all men of different occupations, are divided into 

 two great classes. Some of the farmers spend all their time in order 

 to raise the best crops, and are always ready to try new method,* 

 which may have better results, hence they may be called progressive 

 iiud energetic, while the others who are negligent can be calle(^ 

 non-progressive. The latter do not work for improvement, thej 

 rather work to live. Since most of the non-progressive farmers avf- 

 indolent, many of the people whose occupation is not farming arf 

 under the impression that only poor, indolent and ignorant people 

 follow that occupation. Before they draw their conclusion, they do 

 not think that such men are found in all parts of the world, and a1 

 all the different occupations. They think tliat all farmers are ignc 

 r-ant and that nobody else but them is wise. 

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