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Show IS AGRICULTURAL IRllifLPFUL Furnished by School of Commerce and .business Administration, Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural College 1 Out in San IMego lives a Mired far. , mer. This farmer, who is now sixty , years of age, was brought up on a small farm in Kansas, liu-ly in life he was thrown on his own resources i for a living. Like many pioneer far- ' tiers' boys he became independent, in. dividjalistic, and egotistical. 'When ' he was a vey young man he married, liougb.t 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 urm grew also. When his three 'boys became old enough to do thie 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 farmed for 50 years and he scorned this "new tangled stuff" and lamented the fact that he couldn't take a vacation vaca-tion without consequents to his farm. In order to keep pace with the new demands he found that be had to work harder all the time and he was getting loss capable of hard work. The inev liable 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 he went to San Diego for a year, and 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 so mad and humiliated hu-miliated that he swore never to see the farm again. He has been in San Diego eight years now and lias 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 baides. " Isn't It barely possible that there are some Utah farmers who could increase the earnings ot t.eir farms If they to. . vucation and left their so.is irttf some esp nsibil.tr and with it-Lou vork out theii own ideas? nd wouldn' they ali b3 happier? |