In the housework the girls are no more responsible about their sweeping and scrubbing, their washing and wiping, than the boys are on the farm. In the laundry they often forget to kindle the fire until it is time to commence ironing. Then they must stand and wait for the irons to heat. In the wash-room they would as soon use a box of soap as a bar. In the sewing-room they sew and then rip, and then sew up again and rip out again. The girls have followed the plow or trundled baby wagons, and know nothing about sewing, knitting, darning, or anything else that fits them for real home life. Multitudes of young men have their hearts set upon the pulpit and platform while there is scarcely one in ten thousand who is learning a trade. Our carpenters and masons, our tinners and shoemakers are men who are in middle life, or whose heads are frosted for the grave. These young people that we are educating will need school-houses and churches and court-houses; but the way things are going now, there will be no one to build them after their fathers are gone. In view of these facts, we have urged the establishment of shops where trades can be taught, but we are headed off with the fact that we cannot pay expenses. Do other departments of training pay expenses? Wherever the work of training is done, expense is incurred. But people will give to make teachers and preachers. Ah! they forget that the Lord Jesus worked in a carpenter’s shop before he preached the glad tidings; that Peter learned the art of catching fish before he caught men; and that Paul made tents for depraved men to use as homes in this world before he told them of the heavenly mansions. What is needed in these young people is the development of character. Manliness, womanliness, self-reliance can only be developed by a course of training that teaches hands, heads and hearts at the same time. I have spoken of the comparative expense of our industries, but it is by no means all outgo and no income. I have no balance sheet to present with this paper, but the milk goes from the stable to the pantry by the bucketful, the vegetables from the garden to the kitchen by the basketful, and the strawberries from the field to the fruit-room by the crateful. Besides the berries used in our family, we receive from $25 to $100 net per acre from those shipped. We have raised this year $700 worth of sweet potatoes. At very moderate prices we have on hand now at least one thousand dollars worth of thoroughbred and grade stock over and above what has been paid for it. I think I am safe in saying that in spite of all the difficulties, in ordinary seasons, our outside work brings in enough to pay for the labor put upon it.