How To Make Boys Love The Farm

The following is taken from a letter in St. Nicholas lor March. Ifmore parents treated their boys in thisway, it would be niuoh better for both : " I am a little boy, ten yoarsold. When I was Cour, my motlier took me to see my grandfather, who gave me a dollar. When I came home, my father offered to give ine a heifer for the dollar and a year's work at live cents a day. I said all right, and after the year's work was done, he sold the cow and gave rae the .money, with which I boughta four-year-old cow. After a while this cow had a calf, and when he was a yearling, she had another. When the firstcalf was a two yearold, I traded him foranother cow. The first cow by this time liad a thinl calf, and the second cow alt-o had a ealf. I sold two of the yearlings for twenty three dollars, and had six dollars besides. 1 put this money at interest for ten cents on a dollar, a year. Afterwards I bough t another oow, selling the first old one for $27, buying two pigs. By trading round I now have two cows, two calves, two pigs, a pony and saddle, and ii'4 in money at interest, all made in six years. This little fellow will surely get along in the world. " A little effort is necessary to teach a calf to take its first grain dry, but it will soon learn it Beginning with a small quantity and gradually increasing it after a week or two, qr whon the calf is four to six weeks old, give it all it will eatof these üght foods, feeding it immediately after it has taken its milk. A good increase on one good oalf wcll protected, is better thari half a one oa two calves poorly cared for.