Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-10
A Happy Bridegroom,
A Happy Farmer
You Must Envy Anybody Here the Man Be Envied

Listen words you will hear the story and the plans
of a really happy.
He had to talk to somebody.
When do we get to town? ought
am going be married. The young lady lives there
Il twenty years old and she twentyone and
both like living farm.
i've been on this train since clock this morning
walked the Junction The shining when left the
house didn't the neighbors what going
do suppose they get back-and guess the
cowbels will ring tonight
DO like the country? Say wouldn't live anywhere else
in the world
i wouldn live anywhere except farm And wouldn't
have any kind of except Hosensand II have only
bred Guernsey better for butterat
but the calves are hard to raise.
Is farming good lfe7
Say any other kind of life Why look at all
these houses along this track Say, I'm homesick already
wouldn live the middle of city you give $25 900
had to live all my life there.
is work on the farm hard? No you don t even know
you re working.
I've been working with my father all this time and
I'm going start farm of my eighty thirteen
III keep increasing the And 1 I'll
have nothing but pure bred Holstens
My cousin has that has record-he artificial
feeding She gives seventy pounds of milk day-you couldn't
buy her for thousand dollars
And that cow a bull calf month or two old You
couldn't buy him for less than five hundred dollars
Say if he was heifer you couldn't buy him at all
Is milking hard work? Of it hard work. but
it S the best work in the world
How many man milk? Well twenty night and morn
ing good milking. But the twenty-five milk
the better I'll like it.
Wouldn't get rich if ] could sell the milk for
quart? Saw get so rich wouldn know what to do with the
money
The countrys the only place live tell you
look natural in a crowded place like this
My father sold his farm and ne moved in within quarter
of mile of city Why it's enough anybody.
big is that city? About two thousand inhabitants
Goodbye; if you write me, give your address
and II write back
The young farmer long coat his gray cap his
face brown clear gray eyes and powerful handshake
pleasant thing to look at in world of tired struggling
nervous human beings.
happy married farming life you" said the reporter
You bet said the farmer and was gone.
The reporter will him very glad have
write back
To those who live in the big cities we say this:
you want to envy anybody don't envy John D Rookie
Teller Lillian Russell Envy this young farmer He likes his
work and he HAS EVERYTHING HE WANTS IN THE
WORLD
Many man tied the city the miserable fat the cobble
the crowded the high prices the soung salary
life will turn longing eyes toward that farm with the Hosen
where the young farmer starts to work the morning at
half past four and doesn't know he been working when he sud
denly finds it too dark to work longer
He is a happy man BECAUSE HE is AN INDEPENDENT
MAN The farm his the his the young calves
chickens that creep out of their shells the potatoes growing
field the wheat and other felds-ALL ARE
HIS
He produces something What he plants grows he
it grow.
He is to be enyied And this will be infinitely hap
pier country when the millions upon millions lying
of
managed by another young farmer and his bride
The best of luck and happiness them their
their and everything their may there be
millions like them in the United States century
shall have ended
Their S me OF God
them Their bull
aeteth-