106 THE NEW BUSINESS OF FABMING 



omy of the household is to provide the money 

 to buy the things needed by it. There is no fur- 

 ther community of interest ; matters pertaining 

 to business policy are not discussed, and the 

 children do not know whether stocks are boom- 

 ing, veal is down, or the market for the silver- 

 smith at low ebb. The city dweller is amused 

 because the countryman talks crops and weather 

 signs, and he smiles in a superior sort of fash- 

 ion, as if these subjects were inconsequential. 

 Wall Street quotations are made by crops and 

 weather. The broker is dealing with the froth 

 of the game, while the farmer is on the ground 

 floor making the cake with which the former 

 plays. The philosopher who considers that the 

 greatest duty of man is to subdue the earth and 

 to make it a better place on which to live is likely 

 to give the farmer a pass to heaven. 



The boy on the farm has the inestimable ad- 

 vantage of working side by side with his father. 

 From his early years he has been accustomed 

 to regular work — not a task evidently made for 

 him to mark time over, but one which is part of 

 the work of the place, one that contributes to 



