IMPORTANCE OF RURAL INTERESTS 



How few farmers, for instance, keep books 

 so as to know what profit accrues from such 

 and such animal, herd, crop, or parcel of 

 land! This methodless and unintelligent 

 farming is responsible for much of the dis- 

 position shown by boys and girls to rush to 

 the city. Young people with intelligence 

 wish to cultivate their minds and are de- 

 termined to do this. The farming which 

 they have known doesn't ply them with that 

 motive. Farming might be so carried on 

 that young people's mental faculties and 

 sense of art would be addressed by it far 

 more than can be done by city occupations. 



