Show rural art to succeed drab farm scenery drab days un on the farm are about to yield to the era of tarm farm art in ID the united Stat states esp belief that the rural sections of the hie united states are gaoing gr growing up to beauty Is expressed by I orado tatt taft oue one of 0 americas sculptors tn fit form farm aud and fireside magazine lie he sees the day of the dull unpainted baras ciarus unil and the farmsteads that iliac nave have gone unpainted tor for years passing and instead the time when farmers will compete to produce the most beaucl fully landscaped properties and the moat attractive farm farin buildings 1 I often think of the drab bareness of thousands of farro farm sides and of thousands sands of country towns with hardly anything beautiful about thern them except the lovely country girls ays mr taft and ahat lint a dreary setting for aimse girls I 1 only the picture show tor for diversion as a rule before long surely we shall rhall find rural sections competing with each other in ID building community houses achere beauty can be within and without and far farmers competing with each other in producing handsomely laud escaped grounds and yards beauty Is not usually the farm stands which should be the loveliest spots are the ugliest in the countryside mr taft Is the creator of notable works of 0 sculpture throughout the briddle west its his statue of black hawk near oregon ill Is familiar camill or to farmers of the state |