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and fertilization. All this will keep you busy and 

 give you work worth while, and work that will not 

 only prolong and make happy your life, but will be 

 an uplift to your family, your neighbor, and to 

 your fellowmen. You will be keeping in touch 

 with the farm and will get in the right mental state 

 towards your soil that will lead you to increase its 

 fertility. Gather around you the best farm litera- 

 ture, keep active with all the organizations of 

 church and the like that promote the betterment of 

 farm life and society. If in the doing of all these 

 things your life becomes insipid and you begin to 

 dream of city life again, take on some fad like pro- 

 ducing and perfecting a special breed of stock, 

 chickens, seed corn, fruit or the like, and work at it 

 until it interests your every moment. It will not 

 only amuse and interest you, but will result in 

 profit, and keep you from rusting out, and above 

 all, will keep you on the farm and keep you from 

 the heartaches you surely will find if you flee to 

 city life. 



