Specialization 21 



Why not study the bh'ds, and let them make 

 the music ! 



Much of life's energy is spent in trying to 

 adjust square pegs to round holes and round 

 pegs to square holes, and life may be spent be- 

 fore the adjustment is complete. Modern civil- 

 ization tends to specialization. Men vary as 

 widely as do the stars. There is a place for 

 everyone and some one to fill the place, if this 

 great mass of unlike units can only be sorted and 

 fitted into the complex problem of civilization. 



The first question, and the question which 

 should be repeated often is, What am I good for; 

 what branch or branches of agriculture will give 

 me the greatest pleasure and profit ? Having 

 answered this question, pursue the work through 

 all discouragements to a successful issue. It 

 is possible you have no capacity for farm life, 

 and, since you cannot buy a capacity, better go 

 directly to town and there fit yourself into your 

 environment. I have known men to toil many 

 years on a farm, and near the close of life to 

 be driven to town by the sheriff. There they 

 made not only a living, but secured a modest 

 competence in conducting some little one-horse 

 business, the profits or losses of which could be 

 counted up every night. The farm, with all its 

 complexities, with its profits and losses a year 

 or five years in the future, was too large and 



