THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



very generally the case, was not brought out. It 

 was merely hard work all the time. So I, like the 

 majority of farm boys, was not at all unwilling 

 to leave the farm. 



"However, I now sincerely think that I shall 

 sometime return. I truly love the country and 

 all the attractions of nature. Since I left it, I 

 have constantly come to appreciate the country 

 more. I have spent my summers on the farm, 

 and very pleasantly spent them, too. I now 

 firmly believe that farm life may be made the 

 most attractive kind of life. The trouble is, in 

 the majority of cases that have come under my 

 observation, that farm life is not made attrac- 

 tive for the boys. Many of them have very little 

 education, and their life is to them merely hard 

 drudgery from early morning to late at night, 

 with only a bare living as a return. Hence, they 

 are only too glad to leave it. They are in the 

 dark, and don't know that there is light for 

 them. 



"With the increase of agricultural education 

 and betterment of conditions in the country, I 

 believe this will change. The young men will 

 come to see the brighter side of farm life, and 

 the attractions and advantages in staying on the 

 farm." 



(2) "I intend to follow some other business 



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