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Show FARM FACTS. By Peter Eadford, National lecturer Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union of America. Those who till the soil are the cho. sen people of God. MM Farming Is as old as the human raca and is yet in its infancy. m m m Success is bound to come to the farmer far-mer who plans while he plows. m m m No civilization has ever advanced, beyond its agricultural development. RAM The development of the farmer himself must precede the full deveU opment of the ground he tills. m m - The most beautiful fact in the far mers work is that everything he plants l& a. l.esspn Ln faith. a m m The best farmer does not bother-about bother-about getting ahead of his neighbor, his great business is to get ahead of, himself. m m m We must give to the people who live on the farm the same educational advantages for their children as those of the cities enjoy. MR" The country clergy is an agency o,f' much potentiality because the rural life movement is religious as well as industrial and social. K H There should be a social and an industrial in-dustrial survey of every community. The pastor, the teacher and the school-and school-and church officials are they who should make such a survey. a a a In a recent survey of a community in New England, the average annual income of 154 farmers who have a common school education was $229 while the average net income of 122' farmers of the same locality with a high school education was $483 annually. annu-ally. This. was, worth to each farmer-who farmer-who possessed it $253 each year. |