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well in any community as a successful banker, business or 

 professional man. It has been estimated that for the year 

 1914 the income of American farmers was ten billion dollars. 

 Farming is not only the most important, but the biggest 

 business in existence. The farm property of this country is 

 valued at $32,500,000,000. 



Home conditions on the farm may now be fully equal to 

 those anywhere. Science has discovered the septic tank 

 which provides sanitary means for sewage disposal without 

 sewers. Modern machinery has made a water supply under 

 pressure, lighting and heating quite as easily secured as in 

 the city. Rural telephones, rural mail delivery, parcel post 

 and the automobile have brought the country home in as 

 close touch with the outside world as the suburban home. 

 Farm life to-day offers as good opportunities for living, de- 

 veloping and enjoying life as are offered in any city. Most 

 men of wealth own farms and many are building homes in 

 the country to which they hope to retire. 



Bright Men and Women Seek the Farm. — The changed 

 conditions are placing more and more bright and progressive 

 men and women on our farms, who study agriculture and 

 put their best efforts into it. As a consequence, we have 

 agricultural schools and colleges, agricultural papers and 

 magazines, and are developing a true science of agriculture. 

 We no longer depend upon "chance" or "good luck" for 

 results in farming, but know the conditions that are neces- 

 sary to good results and plan and study to supply these 

 conditions. Any boy or girl may well be proud of having 

 been bom and raised on a farm and educated for the busi- 

 ness of farming. 



Questions: 



1. Why did it require less thought and intelHgence to farm many- 

 years ago than it does now? 



2. Why was farming regarded as an inferior occupation? 



3. What has raised farming to as high a degree as any other 

 occupation? 



4. What is the result of this good standing for the farmer? 

 Arithmetic: 



1. In 1870 A took a 160-acre homestead. The land cost him 

 nothing. He built $300 worth of buildings. He had 4 horses worth 

 $75 each, 2 cows worth $30, 2 hogs worth $7.50 each, 20 chickens 

 worth 25c. each and $200 worth of machinery. How much had he 



