Show EDUCATING FARMERS the education of farmers boys is too saly neglected yet the fault is too much with themselves the reason which they assign for lack of education that they are compelled to labor all the ane valuable able abie time does not hold hoid good with one farmer in fifty it is true that farmers are required to labor a greater number of hours in the day than wan they ought yet the fault is with themselves they are required to labor hard and to receive low wages lower than any other classes of citizens but every man and boy in the land has ample time to improve m his bis mind and to gain a respectable common education edn cation catlon if he will but improve his leisure days and hours some of the most influential and useful men of the land have bave spent the youth and summer of life in performing the dru drudgery of bf the farm their whole lives have been one constant f activity industry and hahl hanl lar laor aul awl an i yet the elasticity of the mind is riot hol gone nor ha the desire for mental amur improvement veo disappeared every farmer in the county can have several hours almost every day in the year to read and write if he will but take the valuable minutes that heis apt to squander away in doing norbid nothing at all or ia lit idle and unprofitable chitchat chit ehlt ehat chat tho the long iong evenings and mornings before breakfast are too often spent in doing nothing at all whereas if ohe obe one would accustom himself to studious habits life would not be so burdensome as it it often seems to be on the farm and farmers would raise better crops better stock make male more money respect themselves more be more useful to the tho world and stand far higher in the estimation of others when wien they neglect the mind to supply the wants of the body duty and pleasure should always harmoniously move handin hand A farmer has no right tol to plead that duty to himself and family require him to neglect the education of his own faculties and those of his chil chii children dreu and em aloyes it is incumbent on farmers to see to the proper education of those who follow the plow or wield wild any other implements clements ts As so large a proportion of the operations on the farm must D i now bo be performed by the aid of machinery there ia i and ever vii wll be a growing demand for intelli geu t laborers who can run any kind of farm faria implements with as much safety and intelligence as an engine engineer tr manage a locomotive ioco motive on the railroad A man or boy nees need far moro kno kuo knowledge cledge to hards a span spall 0 of f horses correctly and hitch bitel i them thern to A ft plow or mower and work it as it should be than an engineer but they do not posses that knowledge except ui exceedingly rare instances and farmers ara aro alone culpable for this great want of education amon among their boys and male employed emp loyes this great lack of education therefore he I 1 makes hard work more labori and is attended with greater losses and ili oll discouragements discourage Is courage ments if we educate a man to ta be a good mower we have learned him a lesson which will be of incalculable ad advantage vantage to him in his efforts to perform any other operation with a hand or power implement while the tho hands are faught taught to labor the mind should b execl exercised sed sea and educated to think correctly and profitably JV V Y times |