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ing, and not worth the living. Nature, in her 

 every department, teaches us the doctrine of work 

 and its attendant pleasures and delights. Even 

 the many-hued, sweet, scent-giving flowers that 

 so delight our senses, the pleasing fruits of tree 

 and field, and the joy of beautiful landscape and 

 open sky are the products of the constant work 

 of nature. 



When we achieve, design, and fashion some- 

 thing from our work, we receive more pleasure 

 from it than we would from any of the frivolous 

 amusements of life, and besides, we are strength- 

 ened for the fighting of life's battles. 



To make the business of farming successful the 

 man behind the business must ever work with 

 hands and brains, just as the man behind any 

 business must do to make it successful. 



When the farmer works constantly with both 

 hands and brain, he does not become like a ma- 

 chine that grinds on each day at its same task, 

 but he is constantly accomplishing things, and 

 seeing the glorious transformation of nature ever 

 taking place in the plant and animal life upon the 

 farm and in the open sky. If interested in his 

 task as he should be, the things that he assists in 

 accomplishing with his hands and by the direc- 

 tion of his brain, will give the greater pleasure, 

 besides making his business profitable. 



There is pleasure as well as profit in the plan- 

 ning of a perfect system of drainage and its con- 

 struction and effect upon soil, increasing crop 

 growth, the proper plowing of the soil and a study 

 and application of the best means, methods, and 

 appliances for plowing, the study of how to pre- 



