BRAINS ON THE FARM.

Otago Witness, Issue 1296, 30 September 1876, Page 18

BRAINS ON THE FARM.

A New-Hampshire boy, now a resident of Wisconsin, called at Manchester on his ' way home to his native home the other day. He was a fine scholar, a graduate of Dartmouth, and a law student in Merrimack County. Just previous to his ad- , mission to the bar he took a severe cold, ■which rendered him very deaf, and no medical skill was able to restore his hearing. This affliction compelled him to give tip his chosen profession, and he went "West very much broken down in spirits. For ten years he has been farming, cultivating about 200 acres of prairie, and, as he expressed it, making a good living and ' Baiting down something every year. And , he declared to us that if, knowing what he, now knows, he to begin his active life, over again, he would do just as he . "was compelled to do so unwillingly ten years ago ; that is, he would throw aside his profession and settle down on a farm. Said he to us, " There isn't much glory on a farm, but you get a good sure living. You are your own master ; you can't starve nor be turned out of business ; and as far as the work is concerned, in these days of horse-power a man needn't kill jiraself, farming any more than at any . other business. It's brains that win on a

farm as well as everywhere else, and the

smart man is going to ride while the j stupid one goes afoot, in the cornfield as ■well as in the bar or pulpit. I should like to have my hearing again, but I wouldn't leave my farm if 1 had it."