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tunity? It will never be done under a one year 

 tenancy. Is it not an opportune time for the land- 

 lords and tenants of our land to get together and 

 wake up to their possibilities. 



The excuse of the owners of these farms for the 

 criminal desertion of their farms is that they wish 

 to escape the drudgery of the farm, or they are 

 seeking educational advantages for their children, 

 all of which are nonsensical, untrue, and not 

 worthy the name of an excuse. The same money 

 expended to plant themselves in the city or village 

 would build and equip the most modern and attrac- 

 tive buildings, equipped with every labor saving 

 device and comfort known to any city home. Sys- 

 tems of water works, lighting and heating are now 

 accessible to every farm home as cheap, substan- 

 tial and serviceable as can be installed in any city 

 or village home. The perfected phonograph and 

 musical and other devices for amusement are 

 possible upon the farm. 



The automobile, trolly lines and railroads, and 

 other facilities to obtain an education, make it 

 possible for the farm boy or girl to obtain an edu- 

 cation as easily as the city boy or girl, and there is 

 no need for the farmer to move to city or town 

 to give his children these educational facilities. 

 And by remaining on the farm he escapes the most 

 serious and disastrous things that can befall the 

 young boy or girl, idleness and the false view and 

 notion that we are in this world for the pleasure 

 we may get out of it. If the farmer remains on 

 the farm and sends his boys and girls to the city 

 school that provides for agricultural and domestic 

 science training, they return during vacations and 



