84 THE BUSINESS OF FAEMING 



great achievement, not only planned, thought, and 

 worked while others slept, but worked with greater 

 vim, interest and direction when others worked. 

 No man will ever make a success of the business 

 of farming unless he is in love with its work. The 

 listless, careless, uninterested, lazy farmer will 

 always make a failure of the business. 



But the interest of the farmer in his business 

 must extend farther than the interest that makes 

 him simply a slave to his work, or that interest 

 that does not lead him out in thought, the thought' 

 that leads him into the mysteries or whys and 

 wherefores of the soil, its construction, its bacte- 

 rial life, and of plant growth, and the other things 

 that enter into soil building and maintenance, and 

 the producing and marketing of crops. 



The great inventions and achievements of the 

 past were not thought out and constructed and ac- 

 complished by the pleasure loving and pleasure 

 seeking men, but by men who regarded life as an 

 opportunity for the doing of things worth while ; 

 and in the doing of which they secured and en- 

 joyed more pleasure than in the frivolities that 

 never satisfy but only aggravate and make more 

 acute the desire for pleasure. 



The followers of the creed taught in the catchy 

 phrase, "All work and no play makes of Jack a 

 dull boy," forget that there is more danger in the 

 play that lessens both manhood and womanhood, 

 induces idleness with all its evils, than there is in 

 plenty of work. 



Work is not a task, but one of the choicest bless- 

 ings ever bestowed upon man. The game of life 

 without it would be listless, insipid and uninspir- 



