The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life,

perhaps we may say they were his own, for, as Emerson sa

on for the language and for her son, who seemed to be filled with the spirit which had led Lin

r life. We have such a small farm, and the land hereabout is all so high in price that to enlarge the farm seems almost hopeless. In part because of this diffi

any one has gone before. When I first wrote to the State University I asked how long a time would likely be required for me to complete all the subjects that are taught there, and the registrar replied that, if I could carry heavy work every year, I might hope to take all the courses now offered in about seventy years. In considering this point of preparation for future work, it has seemed to

nd last year, after he had the new barn built, he directed his men to put the sheaf oats in the barn so they would be safe from the weather. He did not understand that oats must stan

understood even by a ten-year-old country boy. I recently overheard two traveling men remarking about the diffe

remarked. 'How do you account for the difference,' asked the other. 'o

eighteen or twenty years that would be of little or no value to him in most other occupations; and in this respect I should be handicapped if I leave the farm life

your reasoning sounds all right; but other occupat

ng, in the truest sense. It provides constant employment, a good living, and a comfortable home for nearly all

naries are needed in India, they are also needed in parts of our own country where farm lands that were once productive are now greatly depleted and in some cases even abandoned for farming; and. if the older lands of the corn