Excerpt from Farming for Boys

Among the multitude of recent publications designed exclusively for boys there are very few which set before them the superior charm, as well as the general superior safety, of a farmer's life. The pervading tendency of modern publications for the youthful mind has been to fit them for trade or commerce in the great cities, as if those human hives were the only spots whereon men could be prosperous and happy. Examples of friendless adventurers from the country to the city, who there rose to fortune, have been largely set before the youthful mind, while no proper notice has been taken of the much more numerous class of boys who, beginning as rakers in the hay-field, thence rose to the position of successful farmers, and subsequently to that of statesmen or public benefactors.

The charm of city life has been unduly magnified, while the greater one of country life has been overlooked. Our boys have thus too generally been taught to think the former preferable to the latter.

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