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Show IRIIilEPFUL Furnished by School of Commerce and .Business Administration, Utah Agri-. cultural College Oat in San Diego lives a retired far. (Tier. This farmer, who is now sixty yoara o ago, was brought up on a small farm in Kansas. Larly in life he was thrown on his own resources fir a living. Like many pioneer farriers' far-riers' boys he became independent, in diWdjalistic, and egotistical. When be was a vey young man he married, liought a farm and by sheer hard work, built up a substantial state. As his estate grew, the idea that he was the only one who could do anything in the right way on his arm grew also. When his three boys became old enough to do the work of the farm, he complained complain-ed constantly that they could not do anything right. When they attempted attempt-ed to apply any agricultural principle they acquired at the State Agricultural Agricult-ural College, the father simply swore and raved about the utter worthless-ness worthless-ness of the new generation. He never left the farm over night because he thought the cows would not be properly proper-ly milked, the pigs wouldn't be fed, and things generally would go to ''wrack and ruin". In response to the general social and economic forces of the last few years, new demands were placed upon this framer. Land values increased, production pro-duction costs soared, new crops and new methods were made necessary in order to pay the additional taxes levied le-vied for general improvement. New machinery and labor saving devices were being introduced by progressive farmers everywhere. The Kansas farmer, however, had fanned for 50 years and he scorned this "new fangled stuff" and lamented the fact that he couldn't take a vacation vaca-tion without consequences to his farm. In order to keep pace with the new demands he found that he had to work harder all the time and he was getting less capable of hard work. The inev itable hapened. His health begau to fail. His doctor insisted on his leaving leav-ing the farm for one year. He finally consented and with a sigh and dirt forebodings about the welfare of the things he had accumulated at such cost ho went to San Diego for a year, nnd left the boys in charge of the farm. At the end of the year when the business busi-ness was checked up it was found that the net income of the farm hand Increased In-creased just 95 per cent. The farmer was bo mad and humiliated hu-miliated that he swore never to see the farm again. lie has been in San Diego eight years now and has not returned to Kansas once. The boys still furnish him and his wife money for their living expenses and each year have increased the net income of th farm bsides. Isn't it barely possible that there are eomo Utah fanners who could increase the earnings of their farms if they to ' r vucation and left t'ae-ir so.is wivf some esp nsi'ciil.ti and with fc -(.or ' vork out theit own ideas? ,4 ad wouldn' th?y all b3 happier? |