Show in J CELLAN farms farm running down any observant man who drives through a long settled farming ill district cannot fall to note that old tarns farms that were once beautiful in every way are beginning to look desolate and untidy tho the writer could name districts to in which this Is notably the case and in every one of them the reason Is that the young folk tall fall to take a proper interest in the old homestead and in the best methods of 0 farming arming and tidiness one ol of them spoken to about the lack of 0 care manifest st upon every hand band said there a dollar for me in mere tidiness my time Is wholly devoted to necessary work as that means money this may imay be true in a sense but it Is wrong in principle and when the time comes to soil sell a farm tidiness counts an aa also it does docs when strangers seek to learn the character and business standing blanding of 0 a man the old settlers settler ot of many ot of the fine farms arms ot of th the country come from tte the east or from foreign countries where tidiness rules in farm management they were so proud of 0 their newly gained homes that they kept them up in fine style for they had bad been renters before or too poor even evento to rent a farm in the old country here boys and girls grew up and were educated better than their parents and quickly acquired now and expensive ideas and habits these young folk no now w run the old farms or have re rented ci ted them out and gone to work in the cities the result Is deplorable tho old farms are growing old in every sense of the word they their should be improving in every way but instead the fences and buildings are going to rack and rulo ruin the trees require trimming the fields have become impoverished eri shed there ts Is in shorts short every ever sign of shiftlessness and slover slovenliness illness about the old places and the pioneer owners would be sorry indeed could they see the state of deca decay y into which chich their old homes have fallin fallen it Is time to rc renovate novate these fine fide old places there are associations about them that should be dear to the children of the former owners they should be kept up not merely tor for the jilce sake of the dollar but for appearances and sent sentiment and we contend that a farmer tidy by nature and in practice Is successful in farming to advantage and will find profit in all that ho be does docs for the beautification as well as enrichment of the farm |