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out so much as a Star to shed its light along their path 

 way. 



No farmer's home is complete without at least three 

 papers. Every farmer should take a good farm paper, 

 one devoted especially to the branch of farming in 

 which he is engaged; a good political paper, of his 

 party persuasion, that he may know what our law- 

 makers are doing; and last, but not least, his local 

 paper, that tells of his neighbor's doings, of the trans- 

 fers of property, of the local happenings in town, of 

 the meetings of various kinds to be held, and 

 of the thousand and one other things interesting and 

 helpful to him. 



Farmers, as a rule, work too many hours. They 

 take too little time to live, to improve their minds, to 

 enjoy life. It is one ceaseless round of labor from 

 early morn till late at night, from one week's end to 

 another, until the farmer is broken down in the very 

 prime of life. You boast of the healthfulness of farm 

 life, yet statistics show that farmers are not as long- 

 lived as merchants or professional men. The reason is 

 because farmers overwork and do not take care of 

 themselves. Ten hours a day in the field on an aver- 

 age is enough. Many farmers have adopted the plan 

 of quitting work at six o'clock every night all summer. 

 Such farmers are not usually behind with their work 

 either. They get a little time for reading in the 

 evening. They get a little time for living, for the 

 man that does nothing but work and eat and sleep 

 does not live, but drags out a miserable existence. 



The farmer should be sufficiently educated to speak 

 and write the English language. He should not be 

 like the Galva farmer last year who wrote to John 

 Moore, secretary of the fair here, saying. "Also enter 



