Show Farm Boys Future For a good many years writers have seemed to be worried because farm boys leave the farms to seek their fortunes in the towns townsand townsand and cities as if the farm boy not the same right to choose his career as other boys There would be as much logic in asserting that the son of a cral c alminer miner for instance should never nevera aspire to be anything but a coal miner Of course if a farm boy ha has no ambition to acquire an education or no rio desire to enter business of a profession or Is not willI to ap- ap apply ap apply ply himself to learning a skilled trade he had stay on the farm Without some Borne sort eort of practical practical cal education he would be worse off in a town or city than in the country and would probably have to accept the lot of a common La- La Laborer la laborer borer But for the intelligent and en- en energetic en energetic farm boy who can obtain an education it can not be nied d-nied that the towns and cities afford wider opportunities In fact many of the leaders In every field of en- en en endeavor deavor came originally from rosa hum hum- humble humble ble farm homes While of the trade sand are crowded today farming is also olo ol o overdone More farm products are arc produced than can bo be marketed nt a profit over the cost of production Whenever the demand equals the supply we shall see sec better prices for agricultural products and we shall also see eec people young and old going poing beck back to the farms But until that time comes the farm boy hould be encouraged to enter any for which his talents and education fit him It may be added that there are excellent on the farms of the country boys who will study and apply mod rca methods but the future holds little in store for the and on the farm or anywhere Exchange eke Exchange |