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Close to the good earth, he handles it well, with 

 faith that hard work and the aid of a good growing 

 season will produce an abundant crop to sustain his 

 nation at war. 

 ♦ The row ahead is straight and well marked. He 

 can see the end, and at the same time view the 

 heights and depressions on the way. He is con- 

 fident of his ability to keep the rows straight, and 

 gives his eflfort, time and attention to that end. They 

 will serve as evidence of a job well done when 

 viewed through the eyes of his neighbor. 



But he thinks of a bigger job, a job of winning 

 the war, of winning the peace, of establishing the 

 kind of a post-war social and economic order to 

 which he wants his son to return and in which he 

 will live, and of avoiding a post-war depression. In 

 this job the way is not so well marked, and the end 

 is not in sight. But, again, he believes that the way 

 can be found with the cooperation, the best thought 

 and the hard work of he and his neighbors, and in 

 that belief he has joined hands with 100,000 and 

 more in the Farm Bureau movement in Illinois. 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



and 97 County farm Bureaus j '"':;'' >: 



