First brooder house built in Indiana many years ago 



CHAPTER II. 



From the City Back to the Old Farm 



MOST people who live in the city, and can afford it, own a country 

 home. Those who are not able to possess a country home usually 

 rent one for a portion of the year. Some must be satisfied with a 

 short vacation each year. Many are unable to get out of the city 

 to the country at all. 



The dream of every city dweller is to have a country home some 

 time in the "afterwhile." A quiet, peaceful, vine-covered cottage with 

 berries and fruit and vegetables and fowls this is the dream of most 

 all who toil in kitchens, or basements, or stores or offices, in bad air 

 shut out from sunlight. Human moles breathing vitiated air full of 

 dust and microbes, air that has never been purified by the sun's rays, 

 air that never bears the sweet fragrance of flowers or the freshness 

 of morning. 



A little personal heart-to-heart talk with any clerk,. or bellboy, or 

 waiter, or office man, even dishwashers and floor-scrubbers, each and 

 all will apologize for the part he is playing in life and begin to tell you 

 of his dreams of the time when this unpleasant routine in this great 

 cog-wheel can be changed for that little cottage with the flowers and 

 birds and freedom and peace of mind and health. 



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