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WISCONSIN STATE AORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
any of the various conditions to which farmers are subjected; not 
only this, it should be so conducted that the boys, and the girls as 
well, may lose none of the benefits arising from country life. It 
may be a difficult matter to do this, but the parents who have these 
two objects constantly in view, with whom the fixed and deter¬ 
mined purpose is new every morning and fresh every evening, that 
their children shall be respectful, obedient, industrious and useful, 
will rarely find those children speaking contemptuously of their 
home life. If there is discontent in the home, we need not go very 
far to find the cause, and with vigilance enough, we need not go 
but little farther to find the remedy. There are two reasons why 
there is so much dissatisfaction among: the farmers’ children. The 
boys will tell you they cannot make money fast enough, while the 
girls will tell you they cannot have the money they have earned to 
purchase books, music, fine apparel, or to make their rooms attract¬ 
ive and pleasant as those of their city friends; if they could do 
these things, they would be delighted with their rural home. This 
is the class of boys and girls who see in farming more advantages 
than in any other calling, and who should not be discouraged with 
the never ceasing cry of hard times, poor crops, low prices and 
hard work. It would be well for those boys and girls now in the 
outset of life, to remember that it requires neither forethought nor 
labor, nor energy, to make hard times anywhere; simply sit down 
at your ease, or go listlessly about, waiting for some new opening, 
and you will have hard times without further effort; you can make 
drudgery out of any employment, and then you will have hard 
work and no time in which to perform it. 
Whatever industry of the farm you may select for your special 
work, you will find use for all your faculties, both natural and ac¬ 
quired. If you turn your attention to wheat growing, stock raising, 
fruit, or the wool interest, mixed husbandry, or last, though not 
least, the dairy, you will need eternal vigilance to bring you suc¬ 
cess. It is your privilege to select that branch of farming which 
will pay the best, with the least capital, and which will turn your 
labor into money in the shortest time. There is nothing which 
small farmers can engage in that will do this so well and so surely 
as the dairy. If only a few cows can be kept, these will pay until 
more will grow up to add to your income. In this way the farmers 
of the old Green Mountain State have brouo:ht their wealth from 
the rocky hillsides and sunny intervales of their farms. 
