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MR. SIMPSON has woven many of the features of modern farming into a story of an American college youth who went to a Pennsylvanian farm owned by a very conservative uncle just about to marry and set up housekeeping. The young man's suggestions for improvements are received with the Usual incredulity, the uncle even declining to oil the wheels of the grindstone, because he has never done it before. But before the onslaught of the boy's “git up and git,” and the insistence of the up-to-date wife, the uncle's prejudices slowly break down, and in one way and another the old run-out farm is gradually improved. New concrete buildings are put in, the tractor is introduced, the dairy herd is improved, and in course of time the farm becomes a completely modern establishment. The young man receives his reward; the local banker becomes interested in him, a desirable farm falls vacant, and in chap. xiii. (ominously enough) an eligible young woman turns up equipped with brown eyes and shy glances, and although the recorded conversations all relate to agricultural improvements, the perspicacious reader will have no difficulty in forecasting the end.
Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy who Made the Old Farm Pay.
J. T.
Simpson
By. Pp. 303. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lip-pincott Co., n.d.) Price 6s. net.
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Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy who Made the Old Farm Pay . Nature 105, 36 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105036b0
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