424 FARM MACHINERY 
The Future of Farming. — Most normal men and women 
love the open country, and for such persons farm life has 
many attractions. The disadvantages can be removed. 
With machinery to replace much of the hand labor in the 
house as well as in the field, with the farm home more com- 
fortable and its setting more attractive, with better prices 
for farm products, better codperation, better roads, better 
schools, better churches, and better opportunities for culture, 
social enjoyment, and recreation — with these things there 
will come a new rural life. That life will be more completely 
satisfying to an intelligent and enterprising people, and a 
larger proportion of the more energetic, capable, and am- 
bitious sons and daughters of the farmer will remain as per- 
manent residents in the open country. We should take every 
opportunity to do our part in hastening the day when all of 
these improvements shall be made and these conditions ful- 
filled, for then the golden age of American agriculture will 
be at hand. 
