66 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL-LIFE DAY, 



WE THANK THEE. 



For flowers that bloom about our feet; 

 For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet ; 

 For song of bird and hum of bee ; 

 For all things fair we hear or see, 

 Father in heaven, we thank Thee ! 



For blue of stream and blue of sky ; 

 For pleasant shade of branches high ; 

 For fragrant air and cooling breeze ; 

 For beauty of the blooming trees, 

 Father in heaven, we thank Thee ! 



— Ralph Waldo Emerson. 



THE FARMERS CREED. 



I believe in a permanent agriculture, a soil that shall gi-ow richer rather than 

 poorer from year to year. 



I believe in hundred-bushel com and in fifty-bushel wheat, and I shall not be 

 satisfied with anything less. 



I believe that the only good weed is a dead weed, and that a clean farm is as 

 important as a clean conscience. 



I believe in the farm boy and in the farm girl, the farmer's best crops and the 

 future's best hope. 



I believe in the farm woman, and will do all in my power to make her life 

 easier and happier. 



I believe in a country school that prepares for country life, and a country 

 church that teaches its people to love deeply and live honorably. 



I believe in community spirit, a pride in home and neighbors, and I will do 

 my part to make my own community the best in the State. 



I believe in the farmer. I believe in farm life, I believe in the inspiration of 

 the open country. 



I am proud to be a farmer, and I will try earnestly to be worthy of the 

 name. 



— Frank I. Mann. 



A MASQUE OF THE SEASONS. 



QUEEN. 



Summer or winter or spring or fall — 

 Which do you like the best of all? 



LITTLE JASPER. 



W^hen I'm dressetl warm as warm can be 

 And with boots, to go 

 Through the deepest snow, 



Wintertime is the time for me. 



QUEEN. 



Summer or winter or spring or fall — 

 Which do you like the best of all? 



