($0 THE HOMB, FARM AND BUSINESS CYCLOPAEDIA. 



There is, however, of late a growing taste for agriculture in our country 

 which is most hopeful. The earth owes us all a living, and if we will 

 " tickle her with a hoe she will laugh with a harvest." 



There is now living in Manitoba a young farmer who went from the 

 ranks of a fashionable career right into the fields. Inheriting a farm 

 which was worth nothing, unless he worked it himself, he determined to 

 study scientific farming at an agricultural college in Guelph, and came 

 home armed with useful knowledge and with practical ideas. He had 

 learned to be a very good blacksmith, carpenter, saddler, and butcher for 

 a farmer should know how to mend his farm- waggon, stitch his harness, 

 shoe his horse, and kill his calves according to the economical Old 

 Country fashion. 



And he had great good luck, this young farmer, in that he found a wife 

 who, like himself, had been reared in " our best society," but who was 

 willing to leave all for his sake, and to learn to pickle and preserve, to 

 bake and brew, to attend to the dairy, and to get up at five o'clock in the 

 morning to give her working husband his breakfast, and he learned that, 



" He who by the plough would thrive, 

 Must either hold himself or drive." 



So this jolly farmer is always at it, and drives his team afield himself 

 at daybreak. 



The old farmers wonder, as they see this handsome young fellow, 

 beautifully dressed, on Sunday, driving his pretty wife to church, that 

 he can make more money than they can. His butter is better, and brings 

 more a pound ; his wheat is more carefully harvested ; his breed of pigs 

 is celebrated ; his chickens are wonderful for the books tell him the 

 best to buy. He has learning and science to hitch to his cart, and they 

 " homeward from the field " bring him twice the crop that ignorance and 

 prejudice draw. 



Above all, he is leading a happy, healthy, and independent life. To be 

 sure, his hands are hard and somewhat less white than they were. But 

 polo and cricket would have ruined his hand?. His figure is erect, and his 

 face is ruddy. He has not lost his talent in the elegant drawing-room, 

 but can still dance the German to admiration. He is doing a great work 

 and setting a good example ; for he is, as we Canadians say, " making it 

 pay." To be sure, he has a great taste for a farmer's life. No one should 

 go into it who has not. But what a certainty it is ! Seed-time and 

 harvest never fail. 



