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Show i-'AK.ms ( kvim; i ok (.1 ii)ii hands or om:ks. In the working out of the farm problems the coming season the country coun-try is up against some stubborn facts. It is useless to blind our eyes to the .situation- we are short of farm workers, and thai at a time when even more are needed than at any time heretofore. The working of the selective draft may give some relief, but cannot entirely remedy matters. Even without the loss of the thou-' thou-' sands of young men recently called, the farms have been short handed for several years. In this connection we would call attention to some facts that should interest us. It litis been noted for some time that many farmers, after years of effective work on their farms, have left them and moved to the towns, leaving their hinds in the care of tenants. This has been bad for the farms in many ways, particularly, partic-ularly, in that it deprived the lands of the care of men of experience and superior judgment, both so vitally necessary at this time. Those men areVitill in the towns, hundreds of Ihem, thousands of them. While they may be a substantial sub-stantial factor of the town force, their presence is at this time most urgently demanded on the farms. Every Ev-ery farm in the land is crying out for the guiding hand and brain of its owner the one person who should have the deepest interest in its success. suc-cess. In this great crisis of the nation's life, every owner of a farm who has left it wherever possible without 'oo great sacrifice should return to the soil and give to It his best labor and thought. It is! not merely the matter of his daily labors, though these would count largely in results. There is the more important fact of his experience and broader knowledge knowl-edge of farm problems. His hand at the helm would be an inspiration to the Entire farm force and would 2ount powerfully in the final results. ' There could be no finer exhibition of patriotism than for the ex-farmers i of the country, wherever and however situated, to return to the soil at least through the period of the war, when they could be of such untold aid to their country. |