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


his words you will hear the story and the plans
of really happy.
He had to talk to somebody.
get town? ought to be there at ten fifteen
am going be married The young lady lives there.
twentythree 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 neighbors know what going
suppose they when get back-and guess the
cowbels will ring tonight.
DO like the country Say, woudn live anywhere else
in the world.
II wouldn live anywhere except farm And wouldn't
have any kind of except Hoens IL have only
bred Guenseys better for buttera
but the calves hard to raise.
is farming good life?
Say there isn't any other kind of life Why all
these houses along this track Say I'm homesick already
woudn live in the middle of city you give $25 900 if
l had to live all my life there.
lis work on the farm hard? No. you don't even know
you're working
I've working with my all time now
I'm going farm of my own eighty thirteen
cows
IN keep increasing the And I I'll
have nothing but purebred Holsteins
My cousin has that has a record-he does artificial
feeding She gives seventy pounds of milk day-you couldn't
buy her for thousand dollars.
And that COW has bull calf month or two old You
coudnt buy him for less than five hundred dollars
Say, if he hefer you couldn t buy him at all.
is milking hard work? Of it hard work
it's the best work in the world
How many a milk? Well twenty night and
ing good milking But the have twentyhv milk
the better I'll like it.
Wouldn't get rich if could sell the milk for
quart? Say I'd get rich woudn what do with the
money
The countrys the only place live. I tell you it don't
look natural in crowded place like this
My father sold his farm and he moved in within quarter
of mile of city Why it's enough to ruin anybody How
big is that city? About two thousand inhabitants
Goodbye you write to me, give your address
and I'll write back
The young farmer his long brown his gray cap his
face brown nut clear gray and powerful handha
pleasant thing look at world of tired struggling
human beings.
"A happy married farming life you said the reporter
You bel" said the farmer and was gone.
The reporter will write him and very glad
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 to the city the miserable fat the cobble
stones the crowded the high prices the oug salary
life will longing eyes toward that farm with the Hoen
where the young farmer starts to work in the morning
four and doesn know he been working when he sud
denly finds it too dark to work longer.
He is happy BECAUSE HE is AN INDEPENDENT
MAN The farm his the his the young calves the
chickens that creep out of their Shells the potatoes growing
field the wheat and the in other felds-ALL ARE
HIS
He produces something What he plants grows and he
it grow
to envied And this will infinitely hap
pier country when the millions upon millions of lying
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
millions like them the United States before this century
shall have ended
Their houses neither
them Their eendersth