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Caption: Booklet - Isabel Bevier Memorial (1942)
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the farm is no longer to be judged by the acreage of its crops, neither by the number of its flocks and herds, but by the character of the life maintained in the farm home not just for Sundays and company, but for all the days and all the company. The new farm life means an attitude of mind that recognizes that land owners are trustees of a valuable inheritance which they should pass on unimpaired. It recognizes that people are more than land, more than machines—that the purpose of the farm home and the farm life is to produce healthy, happy, useful individuals who shall find their satisfaction, their means of expression, their place of contributing to the world's joy, bearing their share of the world's sorrow, doing th ir share of the world's work on the farm or in thi farm home. One has said, 'For the area of the new farming will be needed an enlarging group c country folk that through their general educa tion have been enabled to grasp the meaning of the world's work, to understand th train u
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