SIXTH ANNCAL YEAR BOOK — PART VIII. 829 



and the members of all professions. The farmer has as much time on 

 his hands, and generally more than does the city business man or pro- 

 fessional man. It may seem to him that he works longer, but he does 

 not. 



Lack of success in farming, unless the farm be unmistakably barren, 

 generally comes from lack of intelligent application. Altogether too many 

 farmers imagine that success is wholly due to hard and laborious labor. 

 Labor is necessary to any successful result, but the labor in which the 

 mind acts the part of partner is the kind which pays and which does not 

 wear men out. 



DBUDGEKY CAX BE EEDUCED. 



Although the average city business man may accumulate more money 

 than the farmer can possibly gain under the moist favorable circum- 

 stances, he pays a greater penalty for what he obtains, and in the major- 

 ity of cases is worse off than is the farmer. If the farmer treated his 

 work as he should, and applied to it the intelligence that is given to other 

 trades, he would reduce the drudgery to a minimum, and ready monev 

 would not be a stranger to him. 



Nearly all farmers make a living. Comparatively few of course, grow 

 rich from the proceeds of the farm, but more than half of the farmers, 

 whether located on the rocky hills of Maine or on productive western 

 soil, not only make expenses, but are able to save something every year. 



The farmer is seldom found in the poorhouse. and from farmers' 

 children have sprung the majority of our great men. both of business 

 and of the professions. 



Many a man, who does not know anything about it. and therefore 

 speaks with positiveness, claims that the farmers life is narrower than 

 all others, and that the farmer has little opportunity to boarden his mind 

 with things which go to make for progress and to better civilization. 

 As a matter of fact, the farmer, unless he is located miles from the heart 

 of progress, has a better opportunity to learn what he should know than 

 has the artificially living cityite. whose broadness consists not so much 

 of the good things, but to an alarming extent of the bad things of life. 

 The city clerk or business man, working in a block and housed in a flat, 

 does not have one-half as much opportunity to progress, in the truest 

 sense of the word, as does the farmer on a fairly fertile farm, working 

 as his own master on his own property. 



The farmer above all other men. is independent. If his farm is good 

 for much he knows he can make it give him everything he actually needs. 



XO EXCrSE FOE IGXOEAXCE. 



With the modern periodicals and the distribution of every class of 

 reading matter, the farmer has every opportunity for mental development. 

 The education of the progressive farmer is superior to that of the rank 

 and file of metropolitan men of wealth. 



