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instinct than any other occupation, a fact 

 well attested by the frequency with which 

 the farmer of the past generation was " taken 

 in " by the city sharper. This steadiness 

 makes for continuous effort when the boy takes 

 up some other business. The real farmer goes 

 into farming as a lifework, not as a makeshift, 

 nor with any idea of ever changing his occupa- 

 tion. 



(6) The farm boy is compelled to be frugal 

 of his money. The farm is capable of earning 

 more money than it commonly produces, and 

 the farmer, being a producer rather than a 

 trader, does not receive his share of the wealth 

 that he helps to create ; but I hope the time 

 will never come when the merit of farm life will 

 be only its wealth. 



The love of ease and of pleasure comes with 

 much money, and it is growing, and it is also 

 fatal to the greatest success ; for necessity is the 

 best of disciplinarians. I know it is now the 

 fashion to underrate the importance of careful 

 economy in money; but one cannot be spend- 

 thrift of money without being spendthrift of 



