THE CALL OF THE LAND 



trips the average farmer has no time to spare 

 for them, at least in the summer, the season 

 for excursion rates on the railroads. There 

 are certainly two periods of heavy pressure 

 in farm work in our section of the country 

 during which it would be hard for the head 

 of the establishment to leave. The first lasts 

 from the beginning of spring work to the 

 end of the corn-planting season, about May 

 20. From then until about the middle of 

 June there is usually a lax spell which 

 would give time for a brief trip at a profit- 

 able season a good time to visit the north- 

 ern country, the prairie sections of the 

 Dakotas and Minnesota or even the vast 

 tracts of land recently opened in Canada. 



From the middle of June to the middle 

 of August comes the rush season which I 

 have mentioned, but when this is ended the 

 farmer is surely in condition to enjoy a vaca- 

 tion. That is the time when he should take 

 his wife and go with her to the mountains, 

 the lakes or the sea for complete change. If 

 the West does not attract him, there are 

 numerous excursions to the East. He can 



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