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Show ' How to inako Farmers os tjip.Boys. ' . j -' n-A New Jersey letter to the "Examiner'' lays.the blame.at the door of shiftless farmers for sb' many farmers' sons leaving agriculture for 'other p""-suits.- He says : ' "That the fan It of all .this lies wi0t the 'parents themselves is plain, from the fact' that .'with the thrifty farmers the number of sons who leave home and forfeit Uiefr birth-right is small, indeed. By the sole use; of an acre; of ground, a pairof horses which theciAnJcairth"eir"own, of" perhaps the entire cliarge ofHh'e'pqultry,.they become in- j ter.estedj and -the farm is, made to. have .attractions I for thein. Let good agricultural books andlpa'pers be furnishedithemv and' their education be e.ncour- t aged in eyery proper-way; the waste place's on - 1" the farm be planted and made fruitful, and crook- :''L-ed :''L-ed fences be made straight. Let everything in M and about the garden be done decently, and the '' front yard be kept in order,and long before the sons f of these farmers become of age th.ey;; will-slearn .thatagriculture ,-is 'the most certain source of strength, wealth, and independence.'1 -,v' v , , |