CHAPTER III 



COUNTRY CHILDREN 



Now, while the growing boy's education must not be especially 

 prejudiced in favor of any particular calling, there is no good 

 reason why the farmer's son should not be given the benefit of every 

 possible intimate and wholesome relation to the father's work and 

 business. MOKEEVKR. 



17. Farm Children as a Farm Crop. It is a common 

 saying that the most valuable crop on the farm is the 

 children. Sometimes this saying is taken in a mistaken 



THE BEST FARM CROP. 

 All members of one farmer's family. 



sense. Occasionally a selfish parent thinks of raising 

 children for the profit which he himself can make out 

 of them. 



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