Show I FROM l OUR COUNTY AGENT Leroy C. C Funk When I was a boy in the ninth grade the townspeople said our teacher had been in the schools long enough there w we should have havea a change And we did This man owned property and turned to farming when he left the school room On my way to and from school I passed by his place I learned a lesson Before the alfalfa hay was in inthe inthe inthe the bloom in fact ten to fourteen fourteen fourteen four four- teen days before this school ex-school teachers teacher's mower was already overhauled overhauled overhauled over over- hauled and ready to cut hay Before the grain in the field was ripe in fact ten to fourteen days before this school ex-school teachers teacher's binder was already overhauled and ready to cut grain In the fall after the tile crops were harvested and while others were waiting for fall tall rains so that they could plow this man was plowing True he couldn't plow a full two acres a day but he plowed what he could could he he was always ahead of his work His farming was suc suc- I could point to contrasts but you see them every where A neat attractive place with the farmer fanner always ahead of his work lightens the load A place in need of repair repair repair re re- re- re pair weeds too large for efficient I cultivation crops late and poor and the cows in the corn mal makes the work hard disgusting and dis dis- dis- dis A man ahead head of his work Is happy and it makes one happy to breath his spirit whether In the school room or on the farm County Extension Agent |