The Utah Farmer - Devoted to Agriculture in the Rocky Mountain Region (1915) (14598237957)

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Title: The Utah Farmer : Devoted to Agriculture in the Rocky Mountain Region

Year: 1913 (1910s)

Authors: Utah State Agricultural College. Extension Service

Subjects: Agriculture Farmers Farm management Farm produce Farmers' spouses

Publisher: Lehi and Salt Lake City, Ut. Co

Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ve beentrampled under foot, never brought tothe harvest; we have brought ours through to such a harvest as theworld never saw before. Dare weadulterate our thanks this year withany repining over minor losses?Should we not be ashamed to let thethought enter our minds? As a nation we should be morethan thankful that our country is atpeace with the world. This is real-ized more fully this year than usualwhen over two-thirds of the worldspeople are at war. The European nations engaged in the most terrible warthat has ever been waged are not that out here by ourselves in thismighty Western Hemisphere GodAlmighty is permitting us to workout our own destiny in our own way—for removed from the Worlds blackhatreds and quarrels. Is not this ablessed privilege for you and me to-day? Does it not mean much to ourchildren in the tomorrows of thefuture? Perhaps the present war could not,under existing conditions, have beenavoided, but let us pray that the finaloutcome of this terrible scatastrophy

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THANKFUL FOR BOUNTEOUS HARVEST. only spending millions of dollarsa day, thus piling up debts so enorm-ous that it will take them a centuryor more to get out from under theircrushing weight, but they are alsokilling hundreds of thousands of theirbest men, creating widows andorphans by the millions that aredestined to suffer from the effects ofthe conflict as long as they live. Noris this all. A generation of childrenyet unborn will suffer throughouttheir entire lives from the samecause. Let us be thankful that we live ina land which is splendidly isolatedfrom the Worlds greed and jealousies—a land lashed by the waves of twomighty oceans, rather than confront-ed day and night by the bristling front-ier fortifications of envious enemies—that the whirl of wholesome industryand the dally song of the thriftyhusbandman are not intermingled withthe sound of the clanking sword— will open the eyes of all the peopleson earth to a full realization of thefact that war is wrong, and that amea

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