Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1920 — Opportunities on the Farm. [ARTICLE]

Opportunities on the Farm.

There was a time when the, idea was altogether too common, that the occupation of farming was a sort of junk pile where fate threw human discards who lacked ambition intelligence or perseverance enough to succeed In any other calling in life, observes the Christian Herald. Then along In the late nineties there was a “back to the land movement,” and “mossback” and “hayseed" were relegated to the columns of obsolete slang. The farmer sees life and growth on every hand. Even in winter, In the localities where the landscape seems a symbol of death with snow and Ice holding everything In Its grasp, there Is the hope of renewed life, or resurrection as it were, by the stores of seed grain laid away for the next spring’s planting. Truly, on the farm there are special opportunities for observation and thought and happy Is the farmer whose thoughts go deeper than the bottom of his milk pall and whose pasture fences are not the boundaries of his horizon.