Farming

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The school of agriculture's dean of admissions was interviewing the prospective student,

"Why have you chosen this career?" he asked.

"I dream of making a million dollars in farming, like my father," the student replied.

"Your father made a million dollars in farming?" echoed the dean, much impressed.

"No," replied the applicant. "But he always dreamed of it ..."

----------------A Final Thought ...

"Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor."

- Henry David Thoreau (1817–62), U.S. philosopher