THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



ideal life as it is possible to get. I like the life, 

 could have a farm of 150 acres for the trouble 

 of working it, and there is no more fertile land 

 in the state than that same farm; but a farmer's 

 life is rather too monotonous, and it has been my 

 experience that he vegetates if he is not careful. 

 This is noticed on going to the city after some 

 months on the farm." 



(6) "I left the farm because I realized that 

 farming, like any other productive business, needs 

 capital, and I had only the questionable posses- 

 sion of brains to capitalize. The only unattrac- 

 tive feature to me was the young farmer start- 

 ing out in life with a mortgaged farm having to 

 compete with men who owned their farms/' 



(7) "I do not intend to follow farming as 

 a business, for the following reasons : 



"a. It is unprofitable. 



"b. It is a life solely of physical labor. I 

 consider myself better adapted naturally for 

 mental work. 



"c. Although a respectable occupation (all 

 honest work is respectable), it does not offer a 

 field for extensive development of the broader 

 and nobler of human faculties. 



"d. It is a life which involves a never-ending 

 monotony of daily routine. 



"e. Viewed from its present status, it is a 



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