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Show THE HIRED MAN PROBLEM. I am coming to bclicvo that the hired men of the future will bo married men who will live with their family on their own llttlo plot of ground or on land given them for their own use by the farm owner. One reason why farmers have so much trouble getting help is bocause most farm workmen aro single men and nro constantly drifting around, "avlng no ties to hold thorn in ono Place. The man with a family seldom has the deslro to change hs location and if ho is tho right kind of a man cannot go away even if ho wanted to. The big farmers of the west and particularly thoso who make a apec-alty apec-alty of raising grain do not keep men tho year around as a rule, but sjmply "ire such help as Is needed during harvest. Thoy want slnglo mon or men who will work for day's wages to come on at a moment's notice and leavo as soon as the work Js finished. lAhia has greatly demoralized farm labor and has tendod to provent thoao iarmera who want men all the year around from getting reliable help. h'' M. C. L. " : an- Thouandsof acres of pasture land i . K J- sconsl". Michigan, and 6t I Iowa aro devoted to feeding cows tfi to supply Chicago consumers wUh " 0r,8j All trees and shrubs, in fact all . "w ' J??.n.?Ia tSS1!?; muat hve lo" tn-I u ,s true even of the ever- -- hs col'07 K80 t0UaB' wh,,e "tatning ' W a color, is as nearly destitute of vital- '. Mtumn 0fCAtlc,r Jve in th ' e autumn. r - r r Baa JtyJTn nover chan e lo-V ' Ehi cation of tho gardon. but It Ja a eood ,' 1 oer threo years, Ull i ar?cn "hould 'have pe'rVrct J i |