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Title: Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station
Identifier: annualreportne19122newy (find matches)
Year: (Albany, N.Y. : 1911-1971. (Albany, N.Y. : (1910s)
Authors: New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State)
Publisher: (Ithaca, N. Y. ?)
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Reading in the Farm Home 1081 fails to inspire one with a nobler ambition; it does not strengthen the mind; it does not add-culture. It excites, it entertains, it wears very smooth the avenues of the brain through which it travels, but it leaves no thought-pegs on which to hang ideas. A novel which has led a person to think, which creates an appetite for the best literature, and which incites to higher and nobler living, is well worth while. Regret is often expressed that the book of the day, referring particularly to the novel, does not oftener come into the farm home. Perhaps there are compensations for this deprivation. Dickens, Scott, and Thackeray have
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^^^Ji Fig. 33.— Now is the time for the farmer to read not wholly given place to the modern novel. Many modem novels that have attracted wide attention are not reread, nor are they known for many months; their authors must make a new sensation if they would live. Other recent books will always hold their place because they are sincere and they ring true. Too much reading may be a source of harm.— The mind needs very care- ful management. It rebels against overcrowding, as the body rebels against overeating. Sometimes we do not read because we do not feel equal to the task before us; our energy has been spent in other directions. Still, there are books that are a recreation and are well worth reading.

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