Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-11-30
WHY Rows and Girls Leave the Country.

President Small OF Colby Uni7ersily 10
ale inaugural address sad, 'thst sky
two per cent. Of the graduates of Colby
'ouna positions and settled out OF ,hs
State" add then went on 20 say, "aha'
r9nd r when the majority Of the people
ieny lhetr children high school lducstio1.
l3st We have 80 msay d4seyud tAims
E. ,ugstsd msa wat 20 settle among -
Aglseaed people. Teere IS ~ n5ed o.
a4ying sag deserted farms ia tAis region,
shich COLT ms IS many advantages As aay
farming region in the country. What We
SAINT il educated men who viii use thflr
brains 10 filling the soil as well az their
hands"
A .hers Is q CREST demand for boys aid
grls to come 30 tue front aod occnp7 de-
ssrsble .ositiobs, u cannot be expected
that cur American people, tduca. cd or IN
educated, sill stsud back and remain %
these farms and see the PaQpers 81 o.aer
n.ti ms cone ia and All these places Ii our
ct.ies sad v!llsges. This 10 not common
sense OF sound reasoning
Some Of these bscK farms are nJs bsitg
taken up By those people vino have no 81
p,fsrons flr s3tiety AID .h-y msEe good
citizens sGd ssclTe a confctt9bir hying,
seem conteGt,t auj hspFy and vii fsise
more potatoes 10 the acre thsu AM grad
nate tuat ever left Colby. But am salts
q 3 Inst hands are better tha1 6fsios IN A
potato field, sui tbst a man Of lsrse brain
win reysr undertake 10 teelslm oas OF these
80 called abandoned farm, ADD educate
society TO such point thai these graduates
from Colby will be induced 10 make their
humes amopg them,
These fsrms were taken up when tla
country WAS frat settled, mostly upon the
hishlsnds, when the Indisns were cccupJ-
ing the low lands where now are touad
our best farms, ard on these farms the
labor 10 mostly done by improved mschin-
ery. la the highland regions will be found
the principal portion Of the so-cslled sbsn-
doned farms. I have hsd the control Of
tan Of these farms 10 the Town of Winslow
sane Of them | have sold and some Of
Them remain unsoid.
A Young smart man with Q smart wife.
five Years ago, bough. one Of these and
gave his notes TO, $500 10 annual pay
ments and last winter he paid the last note.
| asked him if he produced this from The
old run-out farm. BE said YES and
showing me his tee,n, he said, Yes, and
got my teeth fixed besides" / noticed his
eve teeth were we'll cut. He said that be
did i. mostly by crossing potatoes and doing
the work with his hands, assisted 3 little by
q smart wife. Here is where brains and
| hands work together. Mr.. Editor, at this
point please allow me to say that differ in
nv opnion with most Of cur agricultural
writer's ard lecturers on the importanc &c
Of the boys sticking to the farm. | am
fauiDsr with the history Of these ten
l e.. l.. and
| ialIy the one above named which was one
Of the best Of she ten and called
| nice farm, and on this farm Was raised a
large family of boys and girls who remained
az home, until OF age, Tor there was at thai
tins no opportunity for people to get EN-
ploy mens - now, for up to that date fol
| 1900 years there had not been inventive
| genius enough TO invent . machine to plsne
. board or make a cash, or door, or do snv'
thing connected with house building. Con
81 quently the boys hsi to cut the bushes
and clear up the isui around them. but a.
the invention Of machinery began to make
its appearance, and nav indus
tries sprang up, calling for mar
ard women, the boys and girls com uenced
leaving the old farms for mcre lucrstive
employment, and then the bushes &C m
menced gaining around the fields and today
most of the farms are grown up 10 wood, II
this vicinity. Blu. the boys and girls AZ,
now old men and women. and many from
these old farms are smorg our wealthies
people.
My motto is TO do By the boys s-d 2ir!i
as the eagle does by its young. VIE.
their wings are large enough to d . the old
ones pull out the sticks that bold he ca
and let them av sway II. g. ABORT, II
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