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and neighbors. Enthusiasm, too, was a little 

 lacking enthusiasm and not desire. 



Enthusiasm! There's a fine, strong word, 

 standing for a great power in this little old life 

 of ours, whether in town or country. The 

 more I think of it, the more I'm persuaded that 

 the flow of youth from the farms to the towns 

 in recent years has had its source, not in dis- 

 content with country hardships, not in any 

 morbid desire for excitement, but for the most 

 part in a limitless enthusiasm which sought 

 room for expression according to its strength. 



Now the enthusiasm is coming back to the 

 farms; for under the new order it can have a 

 better chance on the farms than of old. Farm 

 life has become a great life, and it will be 

 greater still beyond compare in the years 

 ahead. 



That won't be altogether on account of out- 

 ward changes in farm conditions. Scientific 

 methods in crop production, scientific farm 

 management, improved marketing facilities 

 all such things are agencies, but they'd be next 

 to valueless without the fire of human enthusi- 

 asm to give them life and meaning. 



That's what we're getting on the farms in 

 these days. 



