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Show THE FUTURE FARMER" BY DR. F. S. HARRIS Director of Experiment Station of Utah Agricultural College. The time is fast passing when a man farms because he is not suited to I do anything else. The old days of 1 farming by tradition are gone, never to return. In the future it will be necessary to run the farm on principles prin-ciples of science and sound business The high schools and agricultural colleges col-leges throughout the country are turning turn-ing out an army of farmers who will put out of business the men who attempt at-tempt to till the soil without a kimul edge of its properties. Farming, once a despised occupation, is rapidly rising ris-ing to the high dignity of a learned i profession or a select business, and the future will see a great competition competi-tion among those who would engage In U. Only the most capable can siir vive; the others will have to go to the city and get jobs working for someone else. There will be no place on the farm for the unfit or the incapable With modern machinery and improved im-proved crops and farm animals, it will not require s large a proportion of the total population to raise food for the world. Tin. means relatively few Or farmers and better population to raise food for the world, The auto mobile, the telephone, the rural f r, , delivery, the interurban tram x,., . e. and many other mi 0 Stions will ; help to improve the lot of the farmer , Those who want to stay in the bus! should do their best to :.-. p to the times so that they will not be crowded out by a younger and more progn live generation, |