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Show GET FARM NAME REGISTERED Has Strong Tendency to Create Impression Im-pression of Progressiveness With Everyone Passing Place. - Have a name for your farm, and register reg-ister it. Put up a sign in a prominent place at the entrance gate. Have the name of your farm painted on the upper half of the sign in attractive letters, large enough to be easily read from the road. Use the lower half of the sign for a bulletin board, telling passers by of anything you happen to have for sale each day. This information informa-tion can be written with chalk each morning. Have some stationery printed, also bearing the farm name, and your name as proprietor. All this will create cre-ate an impression of progressiveness with everyone who may pass your farm or receive a letter from you. This will cause them to remember you and the products of your farm. Your farm is your place of business. Advertise it, and make it as thoroughly thor-oughly businesslike as possible. It will surely add prestige to your farm to refer to it as "Cedar farm," "Maple Brook, "Elmhurst" or "The Oaks," instead in-stead of Smith's place, Jones' place, or the "second house from the crossroads cross-roads on the right-hand side." Situation In Cotton. There has been so much controversy regarding the situation in cot .on that the following opinion of the St. Louis Globe Democrat will be read with interest: in-terest: "While the price of cotton is lower than usual and the amount of cotton on hand both In manufacturing i establishments and independent ware-; ware-; houses Is greatly in excess of the nor-1 nor-1 mal, the situation is not as bad as was predicted when the European war began." be-gan." Gentleness Is Required. ? A brutish man will never be suc-! suc-! cessful ir he raises dairy cows, as - gentleness is required in persuading the cow to yield her utmost. i Importance of Preparation. . A better understanding of how a ! plant gets Its food will emphatic the s importance of good preparation of the soil before the crop is plaeted. |