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YES, this is the Golden Age for Agriculture; and three leading agricultural economists declare the mid' century farmer to be living in it. The Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University, W. I. Myers, and Drs. F. A. Pearson and Herrell DeGraf have designated the past five years without parallel in the history of American agriculture.
Maybe Dr. Pearson hit the jackpot with his three reasons why this is so: moderately rising prices; a rise in farm property values without a propor
tional increase in the total debt; and increasing amounts of crops, Uvestock and livestock products per unit of labor.
Or, maybe it can be laid to the present-day trend toward the cowboy jeans that have replaced Grandpa's bib overalls and Grandma's gray callico. Maybe the reason farmers have so much is because they just can't get a fist out of their levi pockets when it's doubled up and full of kale seed!
"Heigh-ho, the merry'oh, the farmer's doin' swell!"
MONEY
for your
CHILD
By ALAN W. FARRANT
Everyone has pet ideas of how and when to begin the financial training of his child. Most sound ideas adhere to the proverb: "Experience is the best teacher,"
YOU cannot expect a child to handle money wisely if he has never been given any idea of its value. No definite age can be set as the starting point for such training, because it varies with the individual. But as soon as a child wants something he does not possess, the time has arrived.
With something definite in mind to buy, the child's incentive to save for it is established. The method of securing the needed money is of
prime importance — wor\. Yes, working is the old, old way; and no worthy substitute for it has ever been found. If a child grows up without an appreciation of the connection between work and money, he frequently catches that deadly fever, the desire for quick returns.
The parents, of course, will determine the first work. It is a mistake to lead a child to believe he should be paid for everything he does at home. Homemaking is a cooperative