AGRICULTURE 



AGRICULTURE 



CZDLess than $10 per acre 

 Eli $10 to $25 per acre 



$25 to $50 per acre 

 S3 $50 to $75 per acre 

 ^ $75 to $100 per acre 

 $100 to $125 per acre 



$125 and over per acre 



AVERAGE VALUE OP FARM LANDS PER ACRE IN THE UNITED STATES 



cany on many lines of investigation over the 

 entire country. Moreover, these great institu- 

 tions do not limit their work to the farmer; 

 every farmer's wife and every boy and girl on 

 the farms are receiving their careful attention. 

 No other industry receives so much help from 

 the state, provincial and national governments 

 as does agriculture. See subtitles Agricultural 

 Experiment Stations and Farms and Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, below. See, also, BOYS' 

 AND GIRLS' CLUBS. 



Field for Investigation. More than a genera- 

 tion ago a wise philosopher said: "By and by 

 it will be generally realized that few men live, 

 or have lived, who could not find scope for all 

 their intellect on a two hundred-acre farm." 

 Already this prophecy has become true. The 

 application of chemistry to soils and fertilizers ; 

 the improvement of strains of live stock; the 

 production of new varieties of grains, grasses, 

 fruits and other farm plants ; the extermination 

 of diseases of plants and animals and of insect 

 pests, and to such an adaptation of his farm 

 to the market as will enable him to receive 

 the greatest remuneration for his labor and 

 investment, all give the up-to-date farmer 

 ample opportunity for the use of a broad edu- 

 cation and the employment of every power of 

 a keen and well-trained mind. Modern farm- 

 ing is not drudgery; it is the application of a 

 trained mind to an interesting occupation. 



Country Life. General Conditions. The gen- 

 eral conditions governing life in the country 

 have been far less attractive to many young 

 men and women who have grown up on the 

 farm than those conditions which govern life 

 in the city. Therefore many boys and girls 

 have left the farm for the city, where a great 

 majority of them have continued to live under 

 far worse conditions than those from which 

 they fled. 



The following causes for leaving the farm 

 are summarized from a lecture by Dr. Liberty 

 H. Bailey, who is an eminent authority on the 

 subject. They are: 



1. Lack of business opportunity at home. 

 The father runs the farm, and will not give the 

 boy a share in the business. 



2. Education has given the youth a broader 

 outlook on life, and the old farm does not 

 seem to furnish sufficient opportunity for his 

 activities. 



3. Lack of congenial associates. The edu- 

 cated young man and young woman like to 

 have for associates those whose outlook on life 

 is as broad as theirs. The new things and 

 great movements in government and society 

 do not interest other members of the family 

 or the young people of the neighborhood unless 

 they have been educated. 



4. The boy thinks he sees greater oppor- 

 tunities for success in the city. 



