FARMERS^ BOYS AND GLRLS. 
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in this art, 3 ’ou may learn to put up the sweetest of tub butter, that 
will keep the whole year, or you can make the most artistic print 
butter, put up in dainty rolls, stamped with a rose bud or sheaf of 
wheat, or marked with 3 '^our own initials and made in tiny balls, 
ready for the daintiest silver dishes, and wrapped in whitest mus¬ 
lin, packed in ice and sent to the city market. You and your butter 
may acquire a national reputation. If this work is done with 
promptness and efficiency, and you go about it clad in neat calico, 
with single skirt and ample apron, and waste not time in ornament¬ 
ing the garments of labor with ruffles and puffs, or in washing and 
ironing these useless trimmings, you will find some time each day 
for reading, study or recreation. If you are the faithful, dutiful 
assistant of your mother in all the complicated labors of the farm 
house, you are fitting yourself to adorn some beautiful home in 
city or country that is waiting for you, where you will become the 
true help meet which God designed you to be. You may seek for 
some position which you think higher than this, or whicli you think 
will make you more beautiful or better beloved, and 3 ’^ou may 
waste the best 3 ’'ears of your life searching for it, but you will never 
find it. 
“Beautiful hands are those that do 
Work that is earnest, and brave, and true, 
Moment b}" moment the long da 3 " through. 
“ Beautiful feet are those that go 
On kindly ministries, to and fro, 
Down lowliest wa 3 *s, if God wills it so.” 
There is another class of farmers’ boys who never will, nor never 
ought to remain upon the farm; they have not the qualifications re¬ 
quisite for successful farmers; all their tastes lead them to some other 
pursuit; the 3 ^ will be needed elsewhere; they will do honor to the 
professions. To these, especially, something must be said. You 
find yourself to-day on a farm, removed from the delights and 
pleasures of city life; you wish to see and know of the things of 
which you have read; you hear of literary societies and lectures, 
of college classes and college honors, you love books and stud 3 q 
and would like to be in school the whole year, instead of a few 
months in fall and winter; and perhaps some boy of your acquain¬ 
tance, not as old as you, has been sent to a distant university to 
complete his education, while you think you are left upon the farm 
