THIRD ANNUAL YEAK BOOK — PART V. L95 



wilderness was made to blossom as the rose, and the vast plains 

 where the bison roamed free from the sight of man is now thickly settled 

 with happy homes and prosperous farmers. 



The farmers' wives and daughters should be interested in these 

 county institutes. They should lake part in the program and discuss the 

 best methods of housekeeping, and instruct their unfortunate sisters 

 in the art or inducing their husbands to have all next summer's wood 

 nicely cut and stored away to fortify against the days when time is 

 precious and important farm work is pressing. 



They should also tell their sisters how to induce their husbands to 

 see the necessity of doing the milking and help get the water ready on 

 wash day. and many other duties the husband owes his patient helpmeet, 

 for the Lord knows she has enough to do without adding any of those 

 things to her never ending daily duties. 



The American farmer is the predominating element of this country. 

 and I feel free to say that if all her forces could be marshaled under one 

 comjmon head, they could control the commerce of the world. How long 

 would it be until the more densely populated portions of the old world 

 would be in distress for want of bread, if this country would with- 

 hold the shipment of grain alone, to say nothing of the semi-luxuries 

 such as our meats and packing house products, and the real luxuries 

 as wines, fruits and many other articles. I mention these things that the 

 young farmer may realize the grand position he occupies in this grandest 

 of all nations on earth. 



The most unfortunate fact is that we don't half live up to our priv- 

 ileges in this country. Too many of our young farmers are content to 

 take up the worn just where their fathers left off, and continue it in 

 the same old way. This is an age of progression, and while old methods 

 may have done very well at the time, under the new order of things, 

 they are out of date. 



The remedy is at hand, however. Every agricultural paper is full 

 of good suggestions bearing upon good farming and improved methods 

 of feeding and stock raising. Read those papers, young man, study the 

 experiment station biillentins, think and then act. Attend the Farmers' 

 Institute, learn to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew 

 before. 



"Do noole things, not dream them all day long and thus make life, 

 death, and that vast beyond, one grand sweet song." 



