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Show FARMER SHOULD FIGURE COST Only Practical Way of Telling Which Are the Best Paying Crops for the Farm. A story is told of a lawyer who was employed by a railroad company on account of his shrewdness to secure the right of way through a certain part of Texas. With most of the farmers this lawyer had no trouble in securing the right of way through their lands, many of them giving it without any compensation. But there were a few farmers who would get out a pencil and go to figuring. They figured that the land would be worth as much, or more, to the railroad company com-pany as it was to them. And those farmers always received' a good price for the land they relinquished for the right of way. The lawyer remarked that whenever he saw a farmer take out a pencil and go to figuring that he would have to pay that man full value of his land, and he called them "figurin' farmers." There is a good substantial moral to this little story. Every farmer ought to be a "figurin' farmer' He ought to figure on what it costs him to raise the different crops, and what he receives for thc:n. It is the only way he can tell which are the best paying crops for his farm. He should keep a book for this purpose. It will only require a very small amount of time each day tc keep these accounts and it will be time most profitably employed, i |