Capitai, in Fakmino. 381 



and with this a very great work is accomplished, and, a])pa- 

 rently, a large percentage yielded, but it is too often at the 

 expense of the investment, and when at last the load is 

 removed, the farm free from encumbrances, the earnest, 

 toil-worn workers arc very much in the condition of a house 

 let to a careless tenant, much the worse for wear. 



It is a lamentable fact that far too large a proportion of 

 the present generation of farmers and their wives, now in 

 only what should be the meridian of life, are, to a greater 

 or less degree, broken down in constitution and health from 

 over work. This comes from not being able or willing to 

 secure sufficient help for the wants of the farm, and from 

 performing labor at a disadvantage through lack of proper 

 tools, implements and proper conveniences for the purpose. 

 This does not arise from ignorance of a better way, 

 f chough, when viewed in its final results, it may well be 

 Attributed to this, but lack of means, or, where these are 

 ample, a disposition to employ them in such a manner as 

 shall tend to alleviate extreme personal labor, and, in so 

 doing, prevent the elFects described. 



But the lessons learned while in this school of excessive 

 toil and privation, are vcrj' apt to be remembered and prac- 

 ticed wlien there is no lonsccr occasion for this self denial. 

 Ilei-e is an error tliat should be corrected. Many farmers 

 arc too ambitious, or, at least, they allow tliis trait of char- 

 acter to lead them in wrong directions. AVhen the 

 home farm is paid for, an adjoining one presents sucli attrac- 

 tions as are not easily resisted, and instead of employing the 

 suq)lus means that would accumulate after the debts are 

 paid in improving the land already possessed, and in making 



