The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-10-14

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gathering place of the young men and
women of the neighborhood. Your
own children will be proud of their
home. and it will go far to give it that
attraction that shall keep the boy on
| the farm and If he stays there, he will
| see to 1t that one good girl stays with
him.
The most powerful attraction to the
| boy for farm life is the matter of
pride. Let him feel that his fathers
| farm has on it better cattle, handsomer
horses, finer hogs and better crops
than are to be found on the farms of
| the nelghbors, and he would be less
| than human If he was not interested
| in them. The live farmer of the twen.
tieth century will raise only blooded
| stock. There are two reasons for this.
First, it is more profitable; second.
there is pleasure in it not TO be found
in the rearing of scrub stock. At pres.
ent prices of blooded stock they are at
talnable by any enterprising farmer,
and those bred for many generations
for the development of some particular
| feature or trait are more desirable for
the man that desires to turn that trait
to profit than those bred with no spec.
! ial purpose in view. The farmer that
lives with purpose and has no espec.
ial aim will be likely to rear boys like
himself. Like produces like"
BY the time q boy has reached the
age of eighteen or nineteen years
| (often long before that time) he will,
if he have within him the material of
which men are made, have made
selection of his life work If after
having passed his early life amid the
attractions and pleasant surroundings
of farm life he has n strong preference
for some other vocation, mechanical or
professional, he will be likely to bend
every effort to its attainment. All the
farm born and farm bred boys are not
| going to stay on the farm. Some Of
them are needed for other fields OF acc
ton, and when they have n strong ma
tural inclination for that other field
the sooner and more actively they be-
gin their preparation for it the better.
If one decide for farm life. the prep
aration for it should be thorough and
careful. The day has passed for tho
energetic boy to be satisfied with in
different preparation for any busi-
ness. whether professional or pastoral.
He must be educated in any line TO
meet the competition of the age in
which he is to live and work. Tho
| higher his education and the more
thorough his preparation for his work,
the more interest he will take in it,
and the greater the consequent sue
cess.
There has never been n time in the
history of the present generation when
the prospects of the farmer were
| brighter. Steam and electricity are
year by year bringing him in more
direct contact with the commercial
world and its markets. He can buy
cheaper and sell higher than at any
| time for years. Free agricultural
schools are to-day within the reach of
every farmers son. and it costs less
for proper fitting for agricultural life
than is required in any other profess
sion for farming is Il profession).
There should be free and full feeling
and sympathy between father ana son
in the plans for work and the future.
The son should be consulted and ad-
vised with as if he We're a partner in
the business. BY precept and example
he should be taught to respect his
mother and sisters and pay them the
little attentions to which they are en-
titled. 1t takes something more than
external surroundings to constitute
"Home." Whatever they may be, they
are the mere adornments, necessary, it
is true, but, after all, home is what its
inmates make it. Mutual interest,
mutual confidence, and mutual love.
these three, and the greatest of them
is love, for where it exists the others
will be found. Where it does not eX-
ist, in nine cases out of ten the fault
will be found at the parents door and
due to their eXample.-New York Trlb-
une.