JANUARY 



On the farm. There is little outdoor work to do on 

 the farm this month. It is a good month in which to 

 read and to plan for the coming year. These are the 

 farmers' days of leisure when the demands of his call- 

 ing are not so exacting as usual, when he and those 

 of his household may enjoy the accumulated fruitage 

 of the year. But the wise farmer will not waste his 

 time even now. Live stock are to be fed and cared 

 for, farm conveniences are to be planned, and systems 

 of cropping worked out. In school the class in agri- 

 culture may profitably study soils and fertilizers this 

 month. 



LESSON XLIV 



COUNTRY LIFE CONVENIENCES 



Stay on the farm. Why do the young people leave 

 the farm in such great numbers to go to the city? Per 

 haps the boys and girls who read these pages could 

 give a better answer than the statesmen and professors 

 who are trying to answer this question. The usual an- 

 swer given and the one most nearly correct, perhaps, 

 is that young people leave the farm because they can- 

 not make enough money there, and because the social 

 life and home conveniences are not attractive. Al- 

 though the country people do not receive for their prod- 



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