Excerpt from Developing the American Farm Boy
An address by Fred H. Rankin, Superintendent of Agricultural College Extension, University of Illinois, at Urbana.
Delivered before the Northern Illinois Horticultural Society, at Harvard, December 7, 1905.
A time comes in every young boy's life when he hears, amid the first stirring of his soul, the questions: "What next?" "Where is my place?" "What can I do?"
These are likely to be lonely hours in the day-dawn of young manhood; certainly no period is more important. He feels himself in a world before he had anything to say about it. He gets to thinking that the good places are all filled, and he will have hard, if not impossible work to push himself into anything worth working at. It seems to him - as has been occasionally expressed to me - that he is almost an intruder, that no one wants him. If any young man here this evening feels that way, I have a message for him, and I wish your attention in a talk regarding the American Farmer Boy, - what is in him and what surely awaits his grasp just before him, if he has a hearty welcoming readiness for a best future.
The most active period of all the world's activities is now waiting - as near as this busy world can wait about anything - peering anxiously into and along the ranks of all young men for those Who Know How.
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