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will become interested, in it, as you will see that 

 it pays better than any other work that has 

 been done on the farm. The whole family will 

 become interested in it and it will help them to 

 see the business side of farm work. This work 

 will cause you to think better of your business 

 and will cause the boys to think better of the 

 farm and some of them will begin to see the 

 matter as an attorney did who visited my farm 

 in the summer of 1901. This gentleman had a 

 son whom he had educated for the bar, but the 

 young man did not like that profession and was 

 determined to go on a farm which his father 

 owned. He took a course in an agricultural col- 

 lege to fit him for farming. His father came to 

 my farm to obtain ideas on baim building and 

 the last remark he made as he drove out of my 

 yard was that there were greater opportunities 

 on the farm than in any other profession. Tliink 

 of this, boys, and remember that it was a pro- 

 fessional man who was talking. 



Importance of a Grood Bull. — The old saying 

 that the bull is half the herd does not express, 

 half the truth when he is selected and handled 

 intelligently. The heifer calves are most like- 

 ly to be like their sires and the bull calves like 

 their dams. The record of a cow's grandam 

 on the sire's side has the same interest to me as 

 her own dam's record. This is especially true 

 when we have a herd of grade cows. Do not 



