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are really fortunate in receiving, and perhaps afterward becoming one 

 of the many thousands of unemployed, existing or starving as the 

 case may be. They soon learn what real care and worry are, and be- 

 come slaves to it, along with the other misguided mortals who have 

 left pleasant homes on the farm, where the pure air of heaven is ever 

 free to all, and refreshing slumber every night fully prepares the 

 body for the duties of each coming day, and where care and anxiety 

 need never come, if each one has rightly performed the farm duties; 

 and that is all they ever need to do, for God then gives the increase 

 and full reward for all their labors. 



The farmer's son has little real show for success in business in the 

 city, as statistics for many years past prove that more than ninety- 

 five in every hundred fail sometime during their business career, thus 

 suddenly losing in a moment all the results of their former savings 

 from years of labor, care and worry. On the other hand, scarcely 

 ever does a farmer fail and lose his savings, even with the present 

 careless system, but one could never fail, if he were half as thorough 

 in all his work of farming as he should be, and as the merchant, 

 forced by competition, is compelled to ever be. Someone is always 

 ready to pay cash for everything the farmer may produce, and at the 

 full market price, while the merchant must ever seek his customers, 

 and after awaiting their coming, must then accept less than the goods 

 are worth, because some unprincipled competitor has offered similar 

 but inferior goods at a lower price, and may be then getting credit in- 

 stead of getting cash. 



What, then, should be done in order to change che tastes and 

 ideas of the children, so as to make them not only willing, but de- 

 sirous of continuing in the life of a farmer. First mrke that life show 

 more of pleasure than of poorly rewarded labor. How can it be done? 

 By using the same care and study of means and results, backed up by 

 as good an education, as is now used by the successful man in our 

 cities. 



This will immediately result in all work upon the farm being 

 thoroughly done, and only such amount being worked as can be thus 

 handled, resulting at the end of the season in a minimum crop-yield 

 of forty or fifty bushels per acre instead of a maximum of five to fif- 

 teen bushels per acre as at present, thus rewarding the farmer at the 

 same cost, except a slight increase in seed, and the expense of 

 harvesting and his own labor, with a profit at least four times greater 

 than he now receives. 



This in itself would at once increase the possible number who 

 could become engaged in this grandest of all employment, and every- 

 one would receive a better reward for less real labor, than he can 

 now possibly receive, from the position he might get in some city. 

 This would also allow him to take the proper amount of time for 

 study and mental improvement, and for needed recreation. His 



