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Show SHOULD BOYS LEAVE FARM ii A Utah fanner gives some inside in-foimation in-foimation on the Question. 1 Is fanning as bad as it is male,' out to be? Is it a bu.-iness absolutely without a future? Is it so unattrac tive that you wouhl advise eveiy young man to leave the farm and to seek employment in t lie city .' One who has spent practically all his life farming answers the aboe question as follows: The other day I met an old friend of mine. Of course we were glad to see each other and talk over the old j I times. But after our talk I did some thinking and came to the conclusion that farming hard as it may seem at times, is not so bad after all. "This friend of mine got a good job in the city many years a,ro. When first I heard of the wages he was getting, I used to get restless. Eut 1 there seemed to be nothing left for me to do but stick to the farm. And I stuck to the job with all the ability I had. The family scraped along, economized in every way, and gradually grad-ually we cleaned up the mortgage on the place. I built up a good herd of Holstein cows, and by careful breeding breed-ing and proper care and feeding I managed to get a nice little profit from my cows every year. "Oh yes, it seemed small, but during dur-ing those years the family lived reasonably rea-sonably well. We had no big rent to pay, no high prices to pay for the milk, meat, and butter to pay out. And my land kept steadily increasing increas-ing in value and the new buildings made the place worth more. "And today I've got an eighty that is worth about twenty thousand dollars. dol-lars. My three children went thru the high school and the two girls are teaching1 in the county, and the boy took a short course and is back running run-ning the farm pretty much himself. We've got enough to live on. I and the wife get away occasionally. Last winter we went to California for a few months. And somehow I feel as though I have been pretty well paid for all my years of hard work. "My old friend made money all the years since I knew him so well, but he must have spent it as fast as he made it. He is still renting a flat and his children are working at book keeping work in the cfty offices. And from what he says they don't find it easy, either. "Of course this don't mean much, : perhaps. Perhaps times are pretty bad for most farmers right now. But I think that the young fellow who stays 011 the farm today will be bet-! bet-! ter off in thirty or forty years from ; now than the lad who gets dissatis-! dissatis-! fied and goes after the attractive ' jobs offered in the city." |