THE OLD AND THE NEW 



more strenuous in his efforts to protect that 

 market, is coming clearly into his own. He is 

 heartily interested in the work of his sons and 

 daughters, as they come back to the farm from 

 the agricultural colleges, brimful of the things 

 he is anxious to know more about and of 

 which in his day of meager schooling even his 

 teachers were unaware. He is alert, up to date, 

 a commanding figure in his community. 



A generation ago many a young man went 

 into farming because his father was a farmer 

 before him, or because it was the one occupation 

 among men which did not need any prelimi- 

 nary training. He reaped what he sowed. Each 

 succeeding year saw the granary heaped fuller 

 of disappointments. Each year opened with 

 an intenser dread of the future. Each year 

 closed with his wife, his children, saddest of 

 all, with the man himself, more completely 

 given over to an intense, abiding hatred of 

 the farm. 



But today the advanced tiller of the soil 

 must come up to his calling as fully equipped 

 for service as the lawyer, the editor, the doctor, 

 the captain of industry; for the curious fact 

 has developed that the calling in which the un- 



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