182 How Much Work for the Country Boy 



THINK OUT A REASONABLE PLAN 



Finally, the farmer is urged to take up the matter 

 for consideration early and make out what seems a 

 reasonable plan of relating the boy to his work, and 

 then to adhere persistently thereto. It has been 

 charged repeatedly that the typical well-to-do 

 farmer works his wife and children hard all day and 

 until late bed time in the evening ; that heavy chores 

 are piled upon the boys after they have already 

 worked overtime in the field; that they are routed 

 out at four o'clock every morning, when they go 

 half asleep and moaning to their work again. 



If the foregoing accusation be at all true, its truth 

 must certainly be the result of carelessness and igno- 

 rance of human rights, and not premeditative in- 

 humanity and criminality as it seems to be ! The 

 reading of good farm literature, together with 

 some intensive study of books and periodicals on 

 the care and management of children these will 

 most certainly prove corrective agencies of some 

 of the abuses named herein. 



REFERENCES 



Standards in Education. Arthur H. Chamberlain. Chapter III, 

 "Industrial Training: Its Aim and Scope." American Book Com- 

 pany. 



Child Labor and the Republic. Homer Folks. National Child Labor 

 Committee. N.Y. 



