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fruitful industry but more safe and more lasting. They 

 [United States] can, in consequence, face the future with 

 more serenity than any other country, provided only that they 

 are not intoxicated by success and do not want to dominate 

 the world." (Meline in " The Return to the Land.") 



The afore-mentioned writer deplores, as do many others, 

 the great rush from the country to the city, which seems to 

 characterize nearly every country. All these things tend to 

 sap the life of the farm. 



• Suggestions for the Man on the Dairy Farm. 

 We shall conclude with a few practical suggestions more 

 particularly adapted for " the man beside the cow." To the 

 young farmer we should say that the first requisite for success 

 in farming or dairying is to obtain an education. One of 

 the old Grecian philosophers said : '* My mind to me a king- 

 dom is." How many realize the value and importance of the 

 kingdom of the mind ? Goldsmith said : — 



Experience proves in every soil, 



Those who tliink must govern those who toil. 



We frequently say to our students there are not more than 

 two things a young farmer is justified in going into debt for. 

 They are, first, to obtain an education ; and second, to buy a 

 home. There are many young men on farms to-day to whom 

 an agricultural education would be of more benefit than any 

 other one thing they could possess. Some one has said : 

 " There are two most valuable possessions which no search- 

 warrant can get at, which no execution can take away and 

 which no reverse of fortune can destroy ; they are what a man 

 puts into his brain — knowledge ; and into his hands — skill." 

 These two — knowledge and skill — are the master posses- 

 sions of the dairy farmer. 



We should advise, if possible, a course at an agricultural 

 college, of which there are a number of excellent institutions 

 all over the ISTorth American continent. Here, contact of 

 mind with mind sharpens a man's intellect in a way which 

 otherwise can not be done so well. " As iron sharpeneth iron. 



