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when they failed, he supplied my wants from his own.” Perhaps 
some strong man will say, “ I was an orphan, poor, ignorant and 
friendless ; he took me and taught me how to labor and how to 
cnltivate, and made me a man, when but for him I should have 
been only a worthless, useless thing, both to myself and to oth¬ 
ers.” Perhaps kind neighbors will say, as they speak of you, “ we 
cultivate our lands better now, and we raise better crops now than 
we did, or ever should have done, if he had not lived among us. ,y 
If these things are so, you will not have lived in vain, and you 
will not fail of your reward. 
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HOW CAN FARMING BE MADE ATTRACTIVE TO THE 
YOUNG ? 
BY MRS. HELEN BRETTEL HUNTLEY, APPLETON. ' 
The attractions which any calling presents, are usually the chief 
inducements for selecting it ; either the pleasure it will afford, the 
position it will give, or the amount of money it will secure in the 
end. But among farmers, there are only a few, comparatively, who 
intelligently choose farming as their business, and pursue it in 
such a manner as to make it attractive. A much larger number 
have accepted it for only the poorest possible reasons; one will 
say his father before him was a farmer, another has no capital to 
engage in other business, another has no education, another no 
trade, others have made up their minds that farmers are about as 
independent as anybody, their living does not cost them anything, 
so they conclude to get a piece of land and go to farming; they 
work hard early and late, they have few pleasures, their home has 
few attractions for themselves or any one else, they will often say 
they are trying to get an honest living, that they must not expect 
to have many luxuries, that plain fare and strong, durable apparel 
are good enough for farmers, and so they plod on to the end of life. 
There are others who do a better work, and who have higher and 
