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Show V 'r v THE BOY AND GIRL OF TODAY Hoy and girl fnrm days of todaynrp 5a' happy as in the olden days, and the trials andjhardshlps uro less. Tho young farm peoplo of today know more of tho goings on In tho big outside world than did those of former days. Tho telephone, tho mall delivery, the automobile, tho farmers' Institute, Insti-tute, the Chautauqua, tho agricultural college all keep them up to date. They appreciate more keen perhaps than their elders how the world's knowledge knowl-edge of agriculture has Increased tho past few years anil how the "rule of thumb" nnd "do it ns father did" rutB nro keeping down the' family Income In-come and keeping up the hard work. They want to try tho nowor methods; they nro trying them, ami the results aro making father sit up and tnke notice and sometimes father takes the crop, too. President Soulc of tho Georgia College of Ag- 1 riculturo tells us there nro more thnn ten thousand thou-sand boys In tho Georgia Iloyo Corn Club; that, In Nineteen Hundred Ten, only ono boy grow ono hundred bushels of shelled corn per acre; thnt In Nineteen Hundred Kloven fifty-four boys grow over ono hundred bushels per acre nt n cost of less than thirty cents per bushel, Including fertilizer, Interest, Inter-est, labor nnd every chnrgoj and that corn was then selling In Georgia at $1.25 n bushel. Isn't this educational to both young and old? As wo educate our children wo should take a p'oBt grnduato course with them nnd keep up to date If wo don't, our children class us as "old fogies." Possibly sometimes they may bo right, oven if we do occasionally have to spank them to maintain that discipline so necessary to our own self-respect as family heads. Wo of moro maturo years can profit in many ways by letting our young people try out tho now Ideas they absorb at school, from the club or from tho lecture platform; and if they aro successful, Incorporate them Into our system of doing things. Success in modern agriculture must corao nlong lines of practise differing In many ways from thoso of the good old days when land wns rich nnd sold for $2f an acre. Ho modern. Start tho boys and girls right encourage them back them up nnd learn from them. "As ye sow so shall ye reap." Charles II . MacDowell. t t |