ncigliborhood, to endeavor to make such arrangements that they 

 can devote themselves to out-door work at the season when 

 farmers need the extra help 1 have named; and could not such 

 be arranged between employer and employed in the localities 

 referred to. 



The ability to organize and direct a considerable number of 

 men is one of the most valuable acquisitions that an individual 

 can have, and he who posseses it should use it to his profit on 

 his farm by employing as many men as shall tax its resources 

 to their full extent. Under such circumstances and where 

 enough extra farm help cannot be had as has been suggested, 

 the better class of agricultural farm laborers landing upon our 

 shores, if secured before the desire to "go west" has taken 

 too deep a hold, must certainly be capable of affording us valua- 

 ble aid in promoting our farming business. This course would 

 be far from good advice when labor can be found within reach 

 of our homes, capable and ready to fill our requirements. 



The reason that I so early refer to this subject grows out of 

 the importance that I would place upon it. The false ideas 

 that get possession of the minds of too many persons, both 

 men and women, upon the subject of labor is most unfortunate. 

 I suppose it grows out of the fact that in certain foreign coun- 

 tries those who do perform most of the labor form a class by 

 themselves and are there doomed, with their descendants, to 

 continue laborers through successive generations because it is 

 the plan of their governments to confine their education to a low 

 level. This foreign class emigrate largely to this country to 

 reap the benefits of our liberal, christian system of government 

 and education. The example of this element in our community 

 and a wish not to be like them combined with some course of 

 imperfect reasoning, — must be why labor is foolishly regarded 

 by some people as beneath them. 



