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Show Snap Shots. (Jood management not luck Is what brings success. This Is the season of the year when the muck-raker should get busy with a snow shoel. Success docs not depend so much on the breed you keep as it does In giving proper care and feed. If you keep up to date you must hustle as the expert of today is out of date tomorrow In the rapid pace that we are going. It has been estimated that the farmers of the country gain at least Jin.uoo.OOO a year by using the telephone tele-phone to keep in touch with the markets. The final estimate of crops by the bureau of statistics of the department depart-ment of agriculture, shows that the lOOtl corn crop amounted to over a billion bil-lion dollars After the bountiful mops and the generally good prices for live stock during the year lUOii. the farmers and stock rahcrs hac a right to feel happy hap-py at the opening of 1007 It requires good land, seed and cultivation cul-tivation to produce a good crop, but the farmer will fall with all these unless un-less he has a good head, as uniform success depends upon good management. manage-ment. Many level-headed farmers and feeders bcl levo more and more in sheep. And why shouldn't they? Sheep will both feed and clothe a man, and that Is more than can be said of other farm animals. According to reports of a test made at the Kansas agricultural college, tho milking machine is a success as there Is no dllllculty In adjustlug It to a cow, nor in getting the cow accustomed to It, and It is stated that tho cow gives more milk than when milked by liand. According to a recent statement tho Department of Agriculture is not content with studying the mechanism of cows, pigs, horses and other farm animals, but will try to point out the defects that exist In the human race and how to Improve them and tho committee appointed will make report re-port at the meeting of tho American Breeders' association to be held at Columbus, ()., on January 18. A world without mistakes and without with-out sullering would boa world without with-out real men and women, without literature, without music, without painting or sculpture and without love, and even without history, for history Is a record of struggles toward better and higher things Without obstacles to overcome and errors to CDnect, remarks the Louisville Cjurler-Jourual, men and women would lapse to a level with beasts in mentality Intellectual and spiritual development would cease and souls not re lined by the lire of ordeals would die of something akin to fatty degeneration de-generation The races would perish of ennui or inanity After all, it's a pretty fair sort of a world as It stands. Much advice might have been offered at the world's making If a few experienced experi-enced old ladles had been standing by, bat the odds are that it would not have been so good a world as It is |