Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-11
A Happy Bridegroom,
A Happy Farmer
rs Meet Eovv Anvhodv Here IS Man 10 Re Envied
rs Most Envy ANYBODY, Here Is the Man to Be Envied.

liking your work.
There young farmer the train coming into the city
his words you will the story and the plans
Of really happy
He had to talk to somebody
get ought be there at fifteen
going to be married The young lady lives there
IT twentythree years old and she twentyOne and
both like living farm.
Tive been this train since o'clock this morning
walked Junction shining left the
house didn't want the neighbo to know what going to
suppose they get backand guess the
eowbe1s win ring tonight
do like the country? Say wouldn't live anywhere else
In the world
IT wouldnt live anywhere except farm And wouldn't
any kind of except Hotensand I'll have only pure
bred Guenseys better for buerfat
but the calves are hard to raise.
us farming good life?
Say there isn't any other kind Of life Why look all
these houses along this track Say, I'm homesck already
wculdn live in the middle city you give $25 900
I had to live all my life there.
lis work the farm hard? No. you don't
you working.
"Ive been working with my father all this time, and
I'm going my own eighty acres thirteen
"In keep increasing the COWS. soon can I'll
have nothing but purebred Holsteins.
my cousin a COW that a record-he artificial
feeding She gives seventy pounds of milk dayyou couldn't
buy her for thousand dollars.
And that has a bull calf a month old. You
couldn't buy him for less than FIVE hundred dollars
Say, if he hefer you coudn t buy him at all
lis milking hard work? Of it's hard work.
It's the best work in the world
How many milk? Well, twenty night and morn
ing good milking But the have twenty-five milk
the better I'll like it.
Wouldn't get rich if could sell the milk for cents
quart? Say I'd get SO rich wouldn't what
money.
THE cOuntrys the only place live. tell you don't
look natural in a crowded place like this
father sold his and he moved in within quarter
mile of city Why it's enough to ruin anybody How
big is that city? About two thousand inhabitants.
Goodbye; if you write to me, give your address
and I'll write back
The young farmer his long coat gray cap his
face gray eyes and powerful handshake
pleasant thing look at in world of tired struggling
nervous human beings.
"A happy married farming life to you, said the reporter
You bet, - said the farmer and was gone.
The reporter will write to him and be very glad have
write back
To those who live in the big cities e say this;
If you envy anybody, don envy John D. Rookie
teller Lillian Russell Envy this young farmer He likes his
work and he HAS EVERYTHING HE WANTS IN THE
WORLD
stones the crowded the high prices the soung salary
life will longing eyes toward that farm with the Hoen
cows young work the morning at
past four doesn't know he been working when he sud
denly finds it too dark to work longer,
He a happy BECAUSE HE is AN INDEPENDENT
MAN farm his the his the young calves the
chickens that creep out Of their shells the potatoes growing in
field the wheat and the in other feldsALL ARE
HIS.
produces something What he plants grows and he
1t grow.
He is man to be enved And this will be infinitely hap
pier country when the millions upon millions of lying waste
divided into farms carefully cultivated each of those farms
managed by another young farmer and his bride.
The best of luck and happiness to them and their farm and
their and everything else their farm And may there be
shall have ended