THE NEW EARTH 



and women who have been the farmers of 

 the repubhc have not entered upon, nor re- 

 mained in, the Hfe from choice. 



With the introduction of agricultural edu- 

 cation, along with the other important helpful 

 developments of the life of the New Earth, 

 came an altogether different point of view. 

 The young men who went away from home 

 to study in the agricultural schools returned 

 with a wholly different idea of the farm life. 

 They found that there were different ways of 

 doing the same thing. They found that busi- 

 ness methods were as pertinent to farming as 

 to banking. They learned that it was not 

 necessary to live a slovenly life on the farm, 

 either in the field work, in the barns, or in the 

 home itself; that a farm could be so adminis- 

 tered that it would be a place to go to with 

 delight, not one to be shunned and to be 

 abandoned the moment something different 

 offered ; that there was money to be made in 

 wise farming; and that, best of all from some 

 points of view, it was wholly unnecessary for 

 a farmer to forever live in the shadow of a 

 mountain of debt. 



With the revival in interest in the affairs of 



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