How to Drive the Boys From the Farm.
If you wish to drive the boys from the farm, send them out to cut green wood at the back door, and tell them they must get up at five o'clock and make a fire from it. Send them out to milk by lantern-light, in the dead of winter, when the cold winds are blowing through the cracks of the barn. Have them drive the cattle to water and be obliged to chop a hole in the ice in order to let them drink. Let them carry water the year round up hill from a spring. Have them turn the grindstone for hours. Send them out to pull wool from the carcass of a sheep, when they have to hold the nose with one hand and pull with the other. Make them do all the drudgery and disagreeable work found to be done on the farm, giving the pleasant work to the hired man. Tell them there is no time for fishing or hunting. And when you have come to your meals, when everything should be pleasant, and you should wear a smile on your face, cry out and say: "We are going to have a drouth, and we will have to go to the poor house," and "The season is so wet that there will be a failure of crops, and I will not be able to pay my taxes." Fret and scold about everything that does not go just right. These and other things that could be mentioned, are driving the boys from the farm.—Louisville Farm and Fireside.