Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-09-28
FARMER ANDPI.ANTER.
KEEP THE BOYS ON THE FARM.
fore Deciding 10 Abandon the
Farm for the City.

In the closing years of the century
there has been disposition among
the boys and young men of tho farms
to leave their country homes und cast
their lot in the larger cities of our
country. In very many of these cases
the boys and young men could have
worked out their salvation better on
the farm. No doubt there are periods
In most young life, when full Of vigor
and adventure, that farm life seems
somewhat slow, lonely and obscure,
and the more this is true with those
young people of our farms who think
the cities one round of attrnctions and
enjoyable things. They falsely think
that entertainment and pleasure is
about all of city life.
How false such views! All is no
more gold that glitters in the cities
than in the country. TIE young man
changes the pure, health-giving air of
the country for the more impure air
OF the shop, the store or the little
room up several flights of stairs that
he calls his home. Brain, intellect,
capacity was never more needed on our
farms than to-day. Taking period OF
the lest fifty years, those men who en-
gagged in farming and stock raising on
this fertile soil in Illinois have had
greater success financially rs whole
than those who at that time took up
city life. The men who stayed in the
country worked for no overseer or
superintendent of a great concern OF
company, their work hours were as
long or as short as they themselves
chose TO make them, while those in the
city, If five minutes late, might lose
their place and be thrown out of work
There is vast difference between
working for ones self and working for
company or corporation. Think OF
working for another for dollar day
and some day you find gold mine
The farmer who owns his farm is as
independent and comfortable as 1t Is
possible p be. And while he has nc
expectations of ever being possessed oi
fabulous wealth he also has no fear OF
ever facing poverty, as 1t must often
be faced in our large cities. The work
of the farm now is as nothing com
pared with what it used to be before
the improved machinery was brought
out. Think Of the days of reaping, oi
crrdling, of raking, Of binding and
moving, of threshing with fail nnd
winnowing with the wind, and now
think of the reapers and binder or
which the farmer rides through biz
fields and threshers and shelters ruI
BY steam in which even the horse j:
spi red some of the harder work and i
will be easily seen that it is not sc
much hard labor that is now needed or
the farm as it is men who have tn,
cupacity to manage The hundred ant
one things that come under the heat
of general and stock farming. II
these days of rural free nail delivery
giving the farmer n daily mail at hi
door, of telephones, Of electric rail
wuys, of almost innumerable stes n
roads running westward from Chicago
toward the Golden Gate! What younl
man can think that farming unde
these conditions is anything but com
Portable and honorable alike, thereb.
proving, as well, what the great Wash
ington said-Agriculture is the mos
hcaltlful, the most sef'Il, the mos
noble employment of man.-T. f., II
Droyers' Journal.