Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-18
Boys and Girls on the Farm.

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The great secret of retaining young
people ON the family homesteads con
sists in making these rural homes some.
thing beyond the abode of hard toll,
| cloudy viSages and compound interest.
to 10 make the place attractive To these
young people, and TO have the boys see
that they do not suffer at the village
gathering in comparison with those OF
their old playmates who are study ing
for college or for profession. There
is no reason why the Sunday and holi.
day clothing of the sons and daughters
of a well-tO-do farmer should not be
equal in appearance to what is worn by
thc.children of the doctor or lawyer or
trader in the neighborhood.s They
should also receive the rudiments of
English education, and should be kept
well supplied during the long winter
evenings with agricultural and other
wspapers-eXcellent educators. One
or more magazines should be taken, and
on the book-shelves should be the pleas
antly-narrated lives of the lead
ing farmers of the land, rather
than dime novels or flash literature. A
good history of agriculture for the in
struction of farmers children is vet to
be written. know that in the opinion
of some, history is no better than an
old almanac, which, for their individual
compfehensions, is undoubtedly true.
But as am old almanac will serve as 8
future guide to him whose far-Seeino
eye can trace the brilliant course Of the
celestial luminaries. so a history Of oul
home agriculture will enable the sensi.
BILE yeomen to trace the progress of ouI
local prosperity. The exploitsyof om
soldiers, the daring of our sailors, the
learning of our scholars, the careers OF
our businessmen, have all been duly
chronieled; yet / have never seer any
CONNECTED mention of our agriculture.
which Gas the quicksilver in a thermom.
eter shows the temperature ever MARKS
the position of community upon the
scale of civilization. 1t is the heaven
ordained sweat of the farmers brdw
which is the salt of the earth. and woe
unto the land where this salt has lost il.
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Farmers children should also be en-.
couraged- to attend meetings of farmers
clubs and agricultural societies., and
premiums should be awarded for Their
labor and skill. The boy who drives
the best broken yoke of steers, or the
best handled colt, or who shows the
best poultry or pigeons, and the girl
whofbrings' the best loaf of bread, s.tbe
sweetest butter, the most ingeniously
made, patchwork quilt, the neatest
darned rent, orsthe best made siir feel
a pride as they receive their premiums,
and hear their names announced. which
does much to bind them to the
homestead. Such awards and honora-
bic distinctionsenlist Young America =
into the ranks of the. yeomanry and
make them contented and happy.
Care should also be taken that the
boys and girls on farm do not have to
wear their parents cut-down clothes, \
and to toll with worn-ont, tools and
household labor-saving appliances. -
.swork-work-work! f'sfs a4 ~ q
From weary chime to chime, H't-
Work-work-work.
As prisoners work for crime.
= Rake, and drive, and hoel =
Hoe. and drive, and rake!
1.-the heart is'sick and the arm benumbn,
q ,sAnd they fain would the farm forsake.n
Boys should have light, -new imlhe-
ments which they should be taught ito
keep -clean and in order, having ia
plAeefor everything and Ceverytfingin
its place. Ben Periey Roose, ia Rstra!
Neso Yorker. u