3. I believe that if I kill every weed on my father's farm we shall be well paid 

 by the increased crop alone, to say noching of the benefit to our neighbours. 



4. I believe that by careful selection of our chickens I can double the output of 

 the flock. 



5. I believe that by introducing Alfalfa on our farm we can keep twice as many 

 domestic animals as at present. 



6. I believe that by keeping twice as many animals, we shall be able to grow much 

 larger crops of Alfalfa and other things. 



7. I believe that by planting shade trees, growing flowers, and shrubs and by 

 keeping a tidy homestead, we shall be better contented and happier in every way, and 

 our farm will increase in value. 



8. I believe not in luck, but in pluck. 



9. I believe that farming is a most honourable calling, and having decided to stay 

 on the farm, it is my duty to make the best use of my time, now, in school, that I may 

 be the better farmer in the days that are to come. 



10. I believe in working when I work and playing when I play, and in giving and 

 receiving a square deal in every act of life. 



The Girl's Creed 



1. I believe that I have a right to be happy every day. 



2. I believe that God's blue sky and God's green earth are a part of my inheritance. 



3. I believe that I have a right to love little chickens and ducks and lambs and 

 puppies as well as dolls and ribbons. 



4. I believe that I could take care of these things as well as my brother, who does 

 not love them as much as I do. 



5. I believe that I should love to keep house better than anything else and I only 

 wish they taught housework at school. 



6. I believe that keeping a garden "all my own" would be great fun, and I believe 

 that I could be very happy in giving away the flowers and in cooking the vegetables that 

 I raised myself. 



7. I believe that I could study real hard at my Grammar and Geography and 

 Arithmetic and Spelling if I could do cooking or sewing with the other girls in the 

 afternoon. 



8. I don't want to go to town and leave my father and mother and my brothers 

 and sisters to live in the country, for I know I should miss them all, and the trees and 

 the creek and the green grass and the old woods and everything, but oh! I don't want to 

 stay at home and do nothing but wash dishes and carry water and do the chores and 

 grow old like Auntie. I want to laugh and love and live. 



9. I believe I can learn to sew and cook and do laundry work and do them well. 

 And I want to learn them and I want to do them well. 



10. I believe in the square deal for girls as well as for boys, and I want everybody 

 to be happy all the time — the old as well as the young. 



GOOD ROADS ONE OF CANADA'S GREATEST NEEDS 



W. A. McLEAN, Deputy Minister of Highways, Ontario. 



Rural roads are the primary channel of traffic. Along them, production, industry 

 and commerce have their origin. Let the common roads be closed, and railways 

 will decay in idleness; ocean liners will rust at their moorings. Nations have prospered 

 without railways; but common roads, "Goods Road," have always been vital to national 

 progress and development. 



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