"THVCALL OF THE LAND 



out which the work will be painfully incom- 

 plete, your sons and daughters continuing 

 to leave you, preferring almost any sort of a 

 life in town to that which your homes offer. 

 This other aid, this missing link, is the de- 

 velopment of beauty on the farm, more par- 

 ticularly in and about the farm home. We 

 need to make the farm home itself rich in 

 cultivating influences, a live inspiration, a 

 perennial joy to farmer, wife, children and 

 neighbors. 



Let me silence beforehand a false thought 

 which may arise in some minds, that what I 

 am going to propose would involve a vast 

 increase in the cost of home-making. On 

 the contrary, what I urge is in the main 

 quite compatible with utmost simplicity and 

 cheapness. Moreover, nearly every feature 

 commended by me will if introduced be 

 found useful as well as beautiful. Beauty 

 and use go hand in hand more frequently 

 than we think. 



Another thing: For the sake of simplicity 

 my suggestions mainly presuppose a new 

 start with a farm, a fresh layout, unham- 



