<h2>THE MODERN FARMER</h2>
<h3>BY JACK APPLETON</h3>
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<span class="i0">Observe the modern farmer! In the shade<br/></span>
<span class="i2">He works his crops by letters-patent now:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Steam drives the reaper (which is union-made),<br/></span>
<span class="i2">As in the spring it pushed the auto-plough;<br/></span>
<span class="i2">A patent milker manages each cow;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Electric currents guide the garden spade,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And cattle, poultry, pigs through "process" wade<br/></span>
<span class="i2">To quick perfection—Science shows them how.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">But while machinery plants and reaps, he rests<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Upon his porch, and listens to the quail<br/></span>
<span class="i0">That pipe far off in yonder hand-made vale,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">With muscles flabby and with strength gone stale,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Until, in desperation, he invests<br/></span>
<span class="i2">In "Muscle-Building Motions Taught by Mail"!<br/></span></div>
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