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Farm and Home Weekly for the 8tatee of Mississippi.
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
FOUNDED, 1895. BY DR. TAIT BUTLER, AT STARKVILLE, MISS)
Volume XV. No. 36.SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1910.Weekly: $1 a Year
Makers of the Future—The Boys and Girls of Today
JUST a few years from now the boys and girls of today will
be men and women—the men and women whose privilege
and duty it will be to lead in every line of work, to decide
what shall be done and how it shall be done, to rule the State,
; to mold in large degree the future of this good land of ours /or
1 ever afterward. Right now, too, these boys and girls are deter
j mining the kind of men and women they will be, are deciding
whether they will do great things or small, whether they will do
them well or ill, whether under their guidance the country shall
become richer and fairer and happier, or be handed down to
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would be one of these good farmers, you must begin to prepare
yourself for it. You must lose no chance to study, to acquire
useful knowledge, to keep yourself strong in body and mind, to
form good habits. If you do these things, the future is yours ;
if you do not, you will be swept aside by the march of progress,
and be one of the “poor farmers," the “failures." What are
you doing about it? Are you making the most of your school,
of the practical training you get on the farm, of the books and
papers you read ? Have you ever thought about a college course
—the short course in agriculture, at least—and about the fact
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follow them,” a less desirable
heritage than the fathers and
mothers of today are giving
them.
As to how they will decide,
as to the future they will bring
about, we have no fear and no
question. The very thrill of
worthy ambitions, the longing
to do good work, to make all
work noble and every life useful,
is strong in the hearts of the
young men and women of to
day. They are dreaming beau
tiful dreams and doing hard
work to make these dreams
reality. Bright, earnest, ten
der girls; strong, clean, pur
poseful boys,—these are the
sort of bovs and girls one finds
tfiat a farmer needs to prepare
for his work just as does a
lawyer or a doctor ? If you
begin your life-work poorly
prepared, the blame will be
largely your own, for on every
side the doors of opportunity
are open.
When you are a woman,
Farmer Girl, the homes of the
country may not be any dearer
to those who share them, but
they will be brighter, more
beautiful, better furnished,
equipped with a hundred con
veniences of which your
mother has never known. There
will be less hard work in the
housekeeping of those days,
but there will be demanded of
the housekeener a wirlor rnrt rio
MEMBERS OF THE GIBSON COUNTY, TENN.. BOYS* CORN CLUB.
on the farm today. The girl
whose life holds no worthy purpose, the boy whose idea is to get
through life as easily as possible, are the exceptions.
Opportunities they have, too, such as few generations of boys
and girls have ever enjoyed. On the next page we are printing
one farmer's lament that he can not share their lot. They are
reaping the harvests sown, in days darker than they will ever
know, by fathers and mothers whose courage never failed, who
did not give up the task because it was hard. It is theirs to enjoy
the fruits of these labors and to prepare themselves right now to
do their work as well.
So we would make this a direct personal appeal to every boy
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When you are a man, Farmer Boy, the farms in your neigh
borhood will be better farms; they will be cultivated better, and
grow bigger crops; better live stock and more of it will be on
them; there will be better buildings, better roads, more ma
chinery, less hard physical work and greater demands for clear
and accurate thinking. All this means that the farmer of that
time will have to be a better farmer than those of today and
this, in turn, means that right now, while you are a boy, if you
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of knowledge, a capacity to
deal with problems which are now left entirely to the physician,
or the teacher, or the legislator. All this means that you, too,
must keep both body and soul clean and pure and strong, that
you must train your hands and discipline your mind, so as to be
ready for the duties that will be yours. If you are thus prepar
ed, you will help to lift the whole race to a higher plane of liv
ing; if you are not, you will tend to hold it down. You are de
ciding right now which pari you shall play.
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
A FARMER BOY’S PROBLEMS. 4
A FARMERS’ SUPPER. 7
HOLLIDAY OCCASIONS AND CUSTOMS IN OTHER LANDS_ 5
HOW THE COUNTRY GIRL CAN STUDY MUSIC . a
HOW TO FERTILIZE WHEAT AND OATS . 3
HOW TO GET RID OF THE CATTLE TICKS . 10
METHODS OF CUTTING CORN. 2
PROF. MASSEY’S VIEWS ON FARM TOPICS. 2
ROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL LETTERS—No. 1. 9
SEPTEMBER WORK IN THE POULTRY YARD. 14
VARIETIES OF WHEAT FOR MISSISSIPPI . 12
WHEN THE BOY TALKED TO HIMSELF. 4
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