CHAPTER XIV 



THE FARM BOY'S INTEREST IN THE 

 BUSINESS 



THE theory that the boys and girls who grow up in 

 the country must in time become settled in farm 

 homes of their own has neither logic nor psychology 

 nor common sense to support it. It is never a ques- 

 tion of whether or not a boy will take up the work of 

 his father, but whether or not he will find at length 

 the true and only calling for which his nature is best 

 fitted. If the parents of the country boy will keep 

 the latter question clearly in mind, many a problem 

 in the latter's rearing will be made much easier. 



In order to break the monotony of the style of 

 expression, much of this chapter will be addressed 

 somewhat directly to the father of the country boy. 



WHAT is IN YOUR BOY? 



If a man should come suddenly into possession of a 

 piece of land having a productive soil, one of his first 

 questions in regard to the soil would be, What will it 

 best grow ? Farmers blundered and starved along 

 for generations in an attempt to make a first-class 

 farm produce the wrong crops, or to produce the right 

 crop through the wrong manner of treatment; and 



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