274 THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 



tional institutions to which they send their chil- 

 dren to school teach them those things that get 

 them interested in nature and farm life, in fine, 

 give them the agricultural and domestic science 

 training, and that their children are dressed as 

 well as finances will justify, then the stream of 

 young men and women flowing towards the city 

 will be stayed. 



But the farmer must himself get the spirit of 

 better farming done under better conditions of 

 improved labor saving devices and farm machin- 

 ery. He must get in love with his soil as well as 

 with his family and do the things that will feed it 

 and improve it, and then get in touch with the 

 better farming methods by which he can grow the 

 better and larger crops, in fine, do the intensive 

 farming in all its lines that brings the greater 

 profit and the better farm living. 



The possibilities of home building and the op- 

 portunities for better living and profit were never 

 so great upon the farm as now. Make these pos- 

 sibilities and opportunities realities, surround the 

 farm homes with all the comforts and adornments 

 of the city home, and you have solved the ques- 

 tion of keeping the boy and girl on the farm. 



Eemember that it does not require the mansion 

 upon the farm to bring the better living, but the 

 modest, simple cottage or bungalow surrounded 

 with the adornments of beautiful lawns set with 

 shrubbery, vine and well kept gardens and or- 

 chards, and furnished inside with the labor saving 

 devices and the comforts and pleasures of good 

 household appointments, libraries, and musical 

 devices, is enough. The simplest home can be so 



