CORNELL 



R\iral ScKool Leaflet 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and entered as second- .'.ass matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Office 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



ARTHUR D. DEAN, C. EDWARD JONES, G. F. WARREN, and C. H. TUCK, Advisers 



Vol. 4 



ITHACA, N. Y., SEPTEMBER, 1910 



No. I 



THE FARMER'S CHALLENGE 

 L. H. Bailey 



Blow ye winds and lay on ye storms 

 And come ye pests in rabble swarms 

 And fall ye blights in legion forms — 

 I am here: I surrender not 

 Nor yield my place one piece or jot; — 



For these are my lands 

 And these are my hands 

 And I am hone of the folk that resistlessly stands. 



The blood of old ploughmen runs hard in my arm 



Of axmen and yeomen and battlemen all 



Who fought and who flinched not by marish and wall 



Who met the bold day and chased ev'ry alarm; 



My father-kind sleep, but I hear the old call 



And fight the hot battle by forge and by farm; — 



For these are my lands 

 And these are my hands 

 And I am bone of the folk that resistlessly stands. 



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