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serious effect upon the development of agriculture? The city has 

 been developed to the neglect and at the expense of the country. 



The familiar saying, It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks, 

 is all too true. It is the young men in farming today that must 

 be looked to for advancement and the improvement of the farm, 

 conditions and methods. How can the best boys be prevented from 

 leaving the farm? There are three essential things which must be 

 demonstrated to the average bright American farm boy to make him 

 stay on the farm: first, that there are, on the whole, possibilities for 

 as great an income on the farm, with the same expenditure of energy 

 and brain, as in other callings ; second, that farm life may be made 

 attractive and robbed of its old-time drudgery; and third, that the 

 honors to be attained by the farmer, and the recognition given him, 

 are as great as in the professions in the city. 



With the increased yields now being secured by the most pro- 

 gressive, and the practice of business methods, the man on a farm 

 may have an income that will enable him to develop the other two 

 requirements. 



The Desolate Home. No paint on the house, no honeysuckle 

 over the door and no time or money for the comforts within that 

 go to make a house a home such conditions are far reaching in 

 their degrading effects, especially upon children. No amount of 

 schooling can drive the memory away or change the effects on the 

 boy of such a home, for the picture that is burned into the boy's 

 brain lives forever. Is it any wonder a boy reared under such condi- 

 tions hates the sight of the farm ? 



One of the greatest problems before the American people has 

 been how to interest in rural life and attach to the farm the young 

 man who has acquired a liberal education and displayed a capacity 

 for leadership. The loss of rural leaders by emigration to the city 

 has been one of the most serious retrogressive factors in our whole 

 civilization. The Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration Work has 

 solved the problem. These young men left the farm because they 

 were repelled by the hardships, excessive toil, and meager gains on 

 the farm and were allured by a seemingly greater opportunity to 

 acquire wealth, influence, and position in the city. The demonstra- 

 tion work undertakes to create in the schoolboy a love of the farm 

 and a new hope by showing the wonderful possibilities of the soil 

 when properly managed and the ease with which wealth and distinc- 

 tion are achieved in rural life when science and art join hands. 

 This is worked out by the co-operation of the demonstration workers, 

 the county superintendent of public instruction, and the rural 

 teachers. 



More intelligent, enthusiastic men on the farm, is a crying 

 need in agriculture today. Our century can show no greater glory 

 than the awakening of an intelligence in relation to the work of the 

 farm. If this can oe generally accomplished, it will be the biggest 

 thing that ever happened. For real meaning it will surpass any 

 educational movement that has yet swept any country, as the final 

 result would be a saving of human energy which would be of even 



