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the direction of something to which you are giving 

 little or no attention but to which you may in time 

 bring him. 



There is the case of a successful wheat raiser who 

 discovered his son's fondness for thoroughbred cattle. 

 So the boy was carefully started on a small scale in 

 the business of raising short-horns. To-day that 

 son is known far and wide as an able specialist in this 

 line of stock breeding. Now, if the father in this 

 case had done as thousands of other farmers are still 

 doing ; namely, if he had attempted to force the boy, 

 against the latter's natural inclination, to take up 

 wheat raising or any other undesirable business, 

 then, the son would have most probably skipped off 

 for the city and secured a fourth-rate place for the 

 mere wages it would bring. Some day this tragic, 

 oft-repeated story of mismanagement and misdi- 

 rection of the growing boy will come out in all its 

 distressing details. 



GlVE YOUR SON A SQUARE DEAL 



Deal with your young son on business principles 

 from the beginning. Do not hastily and unwisely 

 give him a piece of property that will have to be 

 taken from him in the future because of its having 

 grown into a disproportionate value. This old form 

 of mistreatment of the country boy has been the means 

 of thwarting the business integrity of many a prom- 

 ising youth. 



