Item - Making the Farm Attractive

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 32 no. 43 — page 4
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXII, no. 43, September 10, 1877 (Issue)
Companion Story:	"Making the Farm Attractive"
Author:	Thorn, Kate
Date:	September 10, 1877
First Sentence:	Said an old farmer to us, the other day:
Last Sentence:	We believe that if farmers would take one-half the pains to beautify their homes, and make them attractive, that they take in improving their breed of sheep, that their boys would not leave them for the close confinement of city workshops; and we should hear a great deal less of the familiar complaint that "boys are not what they used to be."