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aim contracts them, they should he educated for American 

 •citizens. 



Impressions are strongest in the young, and the charac- 

 ter is mostly developed at an early age ; most education is 

 derived outside the schools and colleges; who cannot recall 

 the time when the course of his life might have been 

 changed by different influences. On entering life and tak- 

 ing his individual place, if he cannot hold his own, no mat- 

 ter what book learning he may have, he is a parasite or a 

 pauper. 



The doctor and lawyer both require special training, so 

 does the farmer; whatever sacrifices he has to make, let him 

 keep out of debt, then he will be independent; the love of 

 home should be greater than that for anything else, let him 

 keep accounts and be able to tell just where he stands. 



Going into his personal experiences, Mr. Bartlett said 

 that thirty years ago, broken in health, and unacquainted 

 ■with farming, he gave up his former pursuits and purchased 

 ten acres of land with an old house on it. 



He had enough money left to put the house in repair, to 

 buy a cow and calf and $25 left over ; for that twenty-five 

 dollars he had so many uses that he never spent it. He 

 took an inventory of stock at commencing, and again at the 

 end of the year and came out $10 ahead, the best ten dol- 

 lars he ever made. Some years he had done worse than 

 that, but nevertheless has enough now to carry him through, 

 providing he dies before it is all gone. 



The secret of acquiring an education is to know how to 

 spend our leisure time to advantage; one might say study 

 this thing, study that, one can't study them all. Study 

 that which will be useful to you. The speaker recom- 

 mended books on the various branches of farming, on his- 

 tory, especially of our own country, discarding newspapers, 

 that reading in his opinion being the great evil of the day. 

 Anything worth reading is worth reading twice, and any- 

 thing worth reading is worth owning. Finally, the far- 

 mer's social life needs development, and he is now doing 

 better in this respect than formerly. 



