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with wliich farmers and employers of unskilled labor have 

 to deal. Away from the restraints of home and family 

 influence, their tendency is downward. "What each farmer 

 can do to check this, is to employ farmers' sons of his ac- 

 quaintance so far as he can do so, and whoever he employs, 

 to treat them with social consideration. The faithful young 

 man who works on a farm is as good a man as the farmer 

 he works for. If he is not treated as such he will be dis- 

 contented. There is no social distinction between the farmer 

 and the farm hand. If one is artificially set up, desirable 

 men will be driven out of the business, and the most promis- 

 ing opening for the son of the farmer himself be cut off. 



