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the support of the family, and on the well-doing 

 of which rests in some measure the success of 

 the farm. There is thus developed in the boy 

 a feeling of responsibility and self-reliance that 

 will equip him for his future life as armor 

 equipped the knight of old. He is early taken 

 into the family discussions of ways and means. 

 Not alone are the matters of spending money 

 brought before the family council, but also those 

 concerned with making it, the selling to the best 

 advantage. The boy learns the value of money 

 and the ways in which it can be made. He does 

 not simply draw an allowance and concern him- 

 self only with making the amount on hand last 

 over until next pay day. 



The association with life, in the growing crops 

 and the breeding of live stock, gets the boy in 

 touch with the revolving wheels of this old earth 

 of ours and broadens his foundation until he is 

 not like a reed in the wind, bending before every 

 blast. He understands the comparative impor- 

 tance of things and is not so likely to be carried 

 away by false idols. 



The farm family is more stable than that of 



