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inclined to chafe under their condit'on in life. There is a great variety 

 of entertainment in farming if the farmer will but educate himself to get 

 entertainment out of his life work. Study of the scientific side of farm- 

 ing is the thing, experiments of various cultivations of various crops, 

 fertilization of soil and experiments in fattening animals, or increasing 

 the milk production from cows, or the egg productions from fowls, are 

 real and constant sources of entertainment, too, as they afford increased 

 income to the man who is entertained, while most other entertainments 

 are available only by an outlay of cash. 



The failure to employ modern methods of lightening labor inside the 

 house is a great hardship on many farms. Thoroughly planned, con- 

 veniently constructed, and carefully arranged buildings are as essential 

 in the country as in the city. The arrangements being made, many im- 

 provements will suggest themselves, until a home adapted to the use for 

 which it is built will be the result. The man who can make two blades 

 of grass grow where one grew before, has done something, and the man 

 who makes one step do where it took two before should also be given 

 credit. 



BOYS ox THE FARM. 



So much is said and written now-a-days in the way of advising the boy 

 to stay on the farm, that we would like to say a word right here. The 

 impulse which leads young men away from the farm is the desire to 

 know more, and every man who is worth his salt has such ambitions. 

 To advise such a fellow to stay on the farm and to be content to go on 

 uneducated is to persuade him to suicide. We advise a young man to 

 obey the impulse to learn something. Leave the farm a few years and 

 attend some agricultural college. Meet the best boys of the state, "for 

 they are there." Spend your happy college years with them, in the en- 

 joyment of college life, — the best, the fullest, the richest life a man can 

 live, — and then go back to the farm. Then I assure you you will find 

 a farm managed by an "up-to-date" farmer. 



THE PLOUGHMAN'S EDUCATION. 



Prof. Geo. H. Colhert. MaryviUe. Mo.. Before Page County Farmers' In- 

 stitute. 



Forty years ago the best medical school of the East made little or no 

 scholastic requirement of those who entered within its walls as students. 

 Any one who could read and pay the fees was admitted to the course of 

 lectures. Today the same school will admit no one who has not had a 

 college course as a foundation. Forty years ago the law schools of the 

 land admitted any one who could show that he had the proper amount of 

 money to pay the tuition required. Today the liead of the would-be-attor- 

 ney must be properly filled, as well as his purse, if he secures an entrance 

 to his chosen field of labor. 



