FARMERS' VACATIONS 



you an average farming section in Ne- 

 braska: Within a radius of two miles there 

 are probably 10 or 12 men worth $4,000 to 

 $25,000 each. Yet many of them live in the 

 manner of city laborers earning $i a day. 

 They scorn vacations, as they scorn the 

 pretty comforts and pleasures of their city 

 relatives, who, perhaps, are worth much less 

 money simple comforts and pleasures, 

 which from ignorance as to the ease of ob- 

 taining them are regarded by the farmer as 

 wild and foolish extravagances. I am in- 

 clined to believe that it is mainly this false 

 idea touching the cost of the thing, which 

 keeps many farmers from enjoying periods 

 of leisure and change. 



But again, many a farmer gets into a rut 

 of such long standing that its walls become 

 almost like stone. He becomes obsessed by 

 the fallacy of the ultimate long vacation, the 

 hope of moving to town and living in ease 

 after 20 or 30 years of farm life. Usually 

 this is a mistaken policy. Every year 

 our towns and cities witness the tragedy 

 of town moving by farmers who occupy 



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