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fathers and mothers use this word. Is there any partnerships 

 between yourself and your boys and girls in the farm? Or is it 

 all yours, and will be theirs when you are through? If it is not 

 NOW, but will be, the chances are that it will never be. 



I don't know of any better way to keep the boys and girls upon 

 the farm than to keep in them an intelligent love for everything 

 upon the farm, and I don't know of anything that begets love 

 any better than personal possession, the knowledge that it is 

 "mine." 



Then there is the ethical side to consider. These boys and 

 girls are getting these lessons every day, either of love of the 

 farm or hatred for the farm. They will get a great deal of that 

 from you. Are you in the habit of saying, * 'I always hate to gO; 

 into a certain lot." Your children are watching you, they can 

 tell when you look over your fields or talk about your garden or 

 something else in connection with your home, whether you love 

 it or dislike it. Have you thought and talked about nothing but 

 money, money, money in connection with everything upon your 

 farm, or have you thought and talked about the birds and only 

 condemned them and begrudged them a few grains of corn? If 

 you cannot see the beauty that is all around you, if you can- 

 not hear the melody that is in the song of the bird and do not 

 talk of these things to your boys and girls, they will, like you, 

 never see anything but the sordid side of things. I can hear 

 someone say: 'T want to get where I can see pictures and listen 

 to good music." There is most exquisite music upon your farms, 

 most beautiful pictures lying before your eyes, if you only have 

 ears to hear and eyes to see. 



Only let your boys and your girls feel through you that the 

 farm is something to be loved and enjoyed, something to be held 

 always as sacred as life itself. 



Song: Mr. Jules Lombard. 

 Piano: Miss Clara Schrieber. 

 Song: Mr. Erfert. 

 Piano Solo: Miss Jessie Dunn. 



