AN AGRICULTURAL EDITOR.
(From the Chicago ' Tribune.') " It is generally to be regretted." was remaiked in the hearing of an Illinoib farmer, " that farmers' boys do not stick to the farm. It seems as if scarcely any of them do," " Oh, I duuao," said the farmer, " I've raised eight boys, and they're all farmers 'cepfc one." "Is that so ? Only one of them caught by the glitter of the city, eh ?" 11 Yes, that's all. Poor Bob would go, spite of all I could do—run away to the city when he was twelve, and we ain't never seen him since, though it's been over twenty years. Bnt 1 dunno but it's all right; he hadn't no likin' for farm work, wouldn t take no interest in it. He 3as' seemed to hate the farm, and didn't know enough about farm work to drive ducks to water." " Yes. I think it was better that he should leave the farm, as he evidently had no taste for it. la he in the mercantile business ?" " Oh, no, nothing of the kind," replied the farmer; no, for the last ten years Bob has been editor of an agricultural paper. He writes most all of the • flints to Farmer,' • How to Do Farm" Work.' « Stick to the Farm, Boys,1 and such things."
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Colonist, Volume XXXI, Issue 5170, 24 March 1888, Page 4
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217AN AGRICULTURAL EDITOR. Colonist, Volume XXXI, Issue 5170, 24 March 1888, Page 4
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