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Ajnerican Agriculturist, June 9,1923 
The Home of His Fathers 
{Continued from page 486) 
ambitious to develop an estate and to 
play at farming for some months in 
summer. The place seemed to him to be 
the one above all others for his purpose. 
He might raze the old house and avail 
himself of the noble setting of trees 
to lend dignity to the new home. Or 
perhaps it would be better to make it 
into a cottage for the superintendent 
while he built himself a great, pillared, 
far flung secluded mansion further 
back from the road. That wheat field 
and pasture could easily be converted 
into the most attractive golf course 
in that part of the State. In summer 
a swift motor could bring him down 
from his city offices in an hour and it 
would be fine ^o have his less fortunate 
friends down for week ends of country 
pleasures. It made a wonderfully 
pleasant dream and he thrilled a little 
when he thought of his beautiful wife 
and how her color would come and her 
eyes shine when he told her of his 
plans. It would be a bit of lover-like 
chivalry to present her with the deed. 
Yes, it was all settled—all but a few 
formalities. 
Counted Chicks too Soon 
So he walked briskly to the house 
with the pleasant feeling of satisfaction 
of one who is a bearer of pleasant 
tidings, found the owner busy with some 
farm task, greeted him pleasantly with 
assurance and said: “I have decided 
to buy this farm.” The old man, a 
little mystified—not fully comprehend¬ 
ing perhaps just what was meant, 
replied: “Thank you, but I do not care 
to sell.” And again the stranger spoke 
—soothingly as one who talks to a well- 
meaning, unreasonable child. “Oh 
well, maybe you think you don’t, but 
I am sure I can make il; worth your 
while. There are plenty of other farms 
just as good. I am willing to pay you 
for the land and location and view. I 
don’t think we will have any "difficulty 
in getting together.” And again the 
old man answered, this time with a new 
note in his voice: “But I have just 
told you that I couldn’t think of such 
a thing. This farm is worth more to 
me than to anybody else.” 
Then the Man of Large Affairs who 
was not accustomed to be denied, began 
to be impatient that the farmer should 
be such a skin-flint and drive his ad¬ 
vantage so hard and he said: “Well 
maybe you think so—but my time is 
money. I didn’t come here to stand aH 
day and match pennies and dicker over 
a thousand or two dollars, more or less.. 
Set any price in reason—anything that 
seems right to you. My lawyer will 
take care of all details and make you 
no trouble. Just name a price. There 
will be a great deal to do here and I 
want to get started.” Then the old 
man flamed into sudden an^er and 
cried out in stern rebuke. “Sir, what 
do you mean? Can’t I make you un¬ 
derstand that neither you nor any 
other man has money enough to buy 
the land that my fathers cleared and 
the spot where they lie buried? Don’t 
you know that I am going to die in 
that corner room there where I was 
born?” 
A Philosophy He C uld Not Fathom 
So at last the great man understood 
and turned on his heel and muttered 
“Fool” and strode back to the c^r. He 
spoke a word to the waiting chauffeur 
who touched his cap in reply. Then 
the great, gleaming car leaped into 
pulsing life at the touch of the throttle 
and went sweeping swiftly on its arro¬ 
gant way along the smooth ribbon 
curving between the pleasant fields. 
But the rider within saw not the sweet 
summer landscape that lay about him 
but sat questioning and debating and 
communing with himself concerning 
this strange Farmer-man whose ideals 
and viewpoint and philosophy he could 
never hopd to understand. 
So the story ends—almost before it 
begins. More and more as I have 
thought upon it, I have come to have 
a very great admiration for the old 
man who dwelt by the side of the lake. 
Of one thing I am sure—that there 
is nothing more needed in our Ameri¬ 
can farm life than ^ greater sense of 
the value of permanency. We ought 
to go about our work, not only as if we 
were farming a farm but also with the 
feeling that we are founding a dynasty. 
As a matter of fact, every generation 
ought to stand on the shoulders of the 
generation gone before. If we are ever 
to develop a fine, gracious, cultured 
farm type of civilization, we must also 
develop some reserve capital—modest 
wealth, if you will. When we shall 
come to have a more general farm tra¬ 
dition \ that the boy shall take up the 
father’s task just where he laid it 
down then we shall have a race of 
landowners and farmers which will 
represent the fine flower of American 
life. 
• 
Something is wrong—ideals are false 
—when we still have great numbers of 
farmers who farm, looking back and 
whose secret or open ambition is merely 
to make money enough to permit them 
to “retire and move, to town.” Very 
often the man who has thus realized 
his hope is a most pathetic figure. His 
old occupation is gone and there is 
nothing else to take its place. He has 
never learned the pleasures of study 
or the companionship of noble books 
and very often his days are long and 
empty. 
Often I have read those sonorous 
chapters in the Book of Chronicles 
which sketch the outline story of the 
long, long dynasty of the Kings of 
Judah. You will remember there that 
one unvaried, selfsame phrase repeated 
again and again and again—repeated 
concerning almost every Hebrew King: 
“And he slept with his fathers and his 
son reigned in his stead.” When we 
shall sleep with our fathers, as some 
day all of us must, God grant that 
there be not lacking, if not a son, then 
at least, one who loves us, to reign in 
our stead. 
Holsteins—Why They Lead 
{Continued from page 483) 
milk. An interesting fact may be noted 
that a great many Guernsey and Jersey 
breeders retain a few Holstein cows as 
nurse cows for their calves because 
young calves cannot digest very rich 
milk. The milk from no other breed 
so closely resembles human milk as 
does that from the Holstein cow. Many 
leading physicians agree that Hol¬ 
stein milk is the best to feed infants 
that have to be raised on the bottle and 
for the growing children and sick 
people. Dr. E. V. McCollum of Johns 
Hopkins University, one of our fore¬ 
most authorities on human nutrition, 
makes this statement: “Milk is our 
greatest protective food, and its use 
must be increased rather than dimin¬ 
ished. No family has the right to pur¬ 
chase any meat until each member has 
at least a pint of milk daily. Milk is 
just as necessary for the maintenance 
of health in the adult as in the young.” 
Dr. Rotch.of Harvard University, a 
well known authority on pediatrics, 
says: “The Holstein-Friesean cow rep¬ 
resents the most perfect milking animal 
known, having every characteristic of 
a cow suitable ior an infant’s milk 
supply.” 
Many individuals like good rich 
cream for cereals and dessert. How¬ 
ever, this is a luxury and may be com¬ 
pared with any product which is used 
as a luxury. Milk having no more fat 
than does Holstein milk is much more 
digestible since the size of the fat 
globules permits much quicker and 
much more thorough emulsifying in 
the digestive tract. Holstein milk is 
more palatable over a long time since 
the fat in milk very often becomes 
offensive to a sick person who has to 
drink it because of their inability to 
digest more concentrated food. 
The future of America in the form 
of our children is a vital factor and 
since the Holstein cow produces the 
one thing which is most essential to 
the development and growth of these 
children there is little doubt but that 
she is destined to develop and progress 
individually and as a breed. The other 
factor which is of as much importance 
in the future of the breed is that, for 
the average farmer under average con¬ 
ditions, there is more profit in th^e Hol¬ 
stein cow due to the fact that she is 
the greatest milk producer of the dairy 
breeds. I see no limit to the growth 
and development of the Holstein breed 
so long as we select carefully and breed 
intelligently. 
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