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farmer, such as is required of the beginner in 

 law, medicine, etc., but still they found that they 

 were engaged in a profession where knowledge 

 is power, just as in everything else. 



TOIL AND PAYMENT OF FARM LIFE. 



The average city dweller is afraid, perhaps, 

 of the drudgery and long hours which undoubt- 

 edly prevail on the farm. But the drudgery on 

 the farm is not like the drudgery of the city, 

 which has a twin suffering. It is a mistake to 

 think that the fanner works longer hours at 

 harder work than the man in the city. There 

 are thousands of people in our large cities who 

 would be infinitely better off, morally, physically 

 and financially, making a living in the country by 

 no harder work and without the misery involved 

 in cheap living in the cities, where good, health- 

 ful foods are well-nigh beyond the meagre al- 

 lowance of the workingman's scanty purse. 



THE WORLD'S IDEAL FARMING COUNTRY. 

 The United States is the world's ideal farm- 

 ing country. Its varieties of climate and soils 

 make it a natural producer of almost everything 



