Putnam patriot., 1913-05-23
Watch Wn"" Byron D. Bugbee em Hn"rI

l the farmer and his son, the rich man l and the poor worker all see that the 1 college which teaches Agriculture and l yearly graduates young men who are i experts in some line of farming, is do- 1 ing more for the country than all the 1 colleges in the world, which deal sole 1 ly with classroom ethics, dead langu- i ages, Higher Criticism, and Scholastic i lore, although such colleges and uni | versailles have their place in the world $ work us well.
 The time has passed when a young l man thought he had to be a minister.
 a doctor or lawyer to be considered somebody of consequence. The agri- | cultural colleges have tansht him that there are multitudes Of careers waiting for the ambitious boy in the country. i Has he a taste for Forestry? IL is a | comparatively new but tremendously important profession. Fruit growing oilers an immense range of possibilities.
 To be a successful apple grower or peach grower or to specialize Tn small ! fruits is chance for very important career, in which men have become fa-
 nous, and the future opens bright vis-
 tas for the youth in these lines Com- ing to practical farming, year by year [ doned farms hoping to build up estates
 for themselves. Realizing the need of trained men for superintendents they apply 10 our agricultural colleges for
 graduates who know what 10 do.
 Dairying, poultry, bee keeping, sheep
 raising, stock raising, potato growing,
 vegetables, hay, grain, etc, all offer important careers for the young man
 who is earnest and willing 10 work.
 The success lthat is worth having
 does not come at single bound. IL is
 won only after long years of prepara-
 and hard toll We may not reach, in
 our country careers the financial fame
 of Morgan or of Jay Gould but we will
 have no Panies nor Black Fridays sull-
 ing our records. Our career in the
 country will be in following Natures
 lawn in making two blades of grass
 grow where but one grew before; in
 doing the very best that we can day
 by day and trusting that the coming
 generation will walk in oir footstepS,
 but knowing better how on account of
 The labor of our lives and the lamps
 we have held for thier feet.
 The present every day career of the average New England farmer and his
 wife Is one of toll that sons and daugh-
 ters be endueated. The farmer works early and late: he reads and thinks; he
 uses scientific brains in helping him solve his problems. He uses the best
 and most improved farm machinery
 and in spite of thousands of obstacles
 he succeeds in making living and something more for himself and
 family. His career is one of toll and self saerihee but he smiles beneath his h, l.a. cause his overcoat is of old style and his best clothes shabby; il is nothing to him as long aS his children are be- ing educated. And the farmers wife, what of her? What career can she for herself, living on farm and working hard day after day with never chance for the pleasures her City Sis ters enjoy, what is her career?
 According 10 popular fiction the far mer's wife is down trodden abused spiritless sort of creature. She may have been so in the past, but in the present she is vitally alive. Go into our farmers homes in this town and the others in Quinebaug Pomona and see the careers of our farmers wives and then ask yourselves if the question Of the destiny of the Republic is not being answered by these women whose 1 aim in life Is for their homes and for their children.
 Are our farmers wives abQsed9 i Many have fine homes, sanitary 1 plumbing in their houses, pianos. books, newspapers, magazines and the { telephone which keeps them in touch l with the world. II is from these homes l that our young people are going out 10 | make careers for themselves From | the father who tolls for them, from i the mother whose joy it is to deny her l sell fine clothes and pleasures for them are coming the earnest men and wo- men of to-morrow. Only the angels know the sacrifices the parents have made that John may have music, that Mary go 10 college; but they were made with a joyful heart and sn abundant faith in the future that the young will ce well equipped to carry out their life's work better than their parents were able 10 do.