The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1911-05-26
81 A YEAR
Tit FARMER S BOY

Al "a meeting u' '." i''">lu"utr
Of twenty ot tie gl'na , lIrg-
lest corporations heid I'D New
York the other day. it was a
matter Of cummen that of those
present. twelve were "tdrmcr'S
boys.
When the Youngest at home
on the farm gets "the blues
and iancie, that there is no
longer the chance that there
used to be to rise above The
monotony and drudgery OF
Itller OF the soil, he can think Of
those twelve captains Of indus
try who started as he is starting
aud remember that when they
were boys there were times
Wncl they too imagined that il
. wd~ It hopeless ambition TO
'a~pjrr 20 win their way TO The
front lu the city.
lie wants to remember that
the farm has evolved some of
I,hr wurid's greatest men and
| some of its most conspicuon-ly
! useful ones aud that with the
increasing activities Of the ul.
ton m all directions there -
now. more than ever, room AT
the ton for the eX,ep.iona. man
IN tGe contemplation g. tho
stirring achievements OF the
, farmer +, boy, past and present.
If he has Imagination aud soul.
he will lind helptul inspiration
e when the day seems dark and
\ the future full of gloom. 1t
y was farmers Son--Eh Whit
, Iney, who created the cotton gin.
which laid the foundation lDr
: the growth Of the cotton indus
itry, now worth $500. O.0oo, 600 a
g year to the United States and Il
g lurmer's boy-Elias Howe, who
. emancipated womanhood from
the slavery Of the needle by
inyenting the sewing machine.
Long before Robert Fulton
sailed plS steamboat, the Cler-
It Imontup the hudson, john Fitch
70 the ingenious product Of Il Penn
sylyauia farm,demOnstrated thai
, boat could be propelled by
Is steam by equippng a skin with
't an engine and sailing his craft
,- up the Delaware with its aid
M Another brdinY farmers boy
=, Oliver Evans sometimes calleC
=" the Watt of America--was the
le first to build and operate a loco
$. motive in the United States,
he CYRUS Mccormick. inventor 0
- the reaper, the whir Of which D.
to-day heard 'round the earth
~ was the modest son Of an ord
On nary Illinois farmer The iirS
,Ie machine TO make tracks was th
be creation 0: a Massachusetts
no farm lad-Ihomaa Blanchard
and the device that furnished
Us the world with the mOdcrl
screw was the work of 4 poo
Vermont geniuS--Thomds llar
vey, qnjet, thoughtful farmer
c' son. TO the rlsOurceiuIncSs o
iy an Ohio farm lad-Char,eS i
~" Brush--who invented the dyna
4'e mo, the world is indebted Tor IT
l'' present day great industrial an
ne power plants that give employ
ace ment to millions OF hand
er' Thomas 4. EdisoG, most bri
'n' liant Of the worlds inventor,
les sponsor tor the electric light
n' the phonograph and a hundrc
I" other devices. was the son OF
e. Door larm laborer. k VI. Tul
AT ncr. inventor Of the ACQUISITION
the dictograph aud the intcric
telephone bearing his ndmc.ro
, universally nsed, when not el
Ihe gagged on his fathers Indian
ing farm used 10 hire himself out
us. neighboring farmers AT % cen
ella. day seeding corn, at which
,r. was acclaimed an expert. FRO
- Wisconsin farm came 6.
Nol Sh1leS. the inventor of the typ
first writer. which revoiutDoni2ed I
business methods Of the worI
Where service is the on
bus, credential that com N D
Vi recognition and a mans ablli
e to must square with his rcspou.
Dyed bility, the farmers boy W
-ER has hearlIened TO the call OF t
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