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Show Farmers' Educational "fTl and Co-Operative Union of America Matten Especial Moment to I I tie Progressive Agriculturist The grouch is a rust on life's machinery. ma-chinery. Nine-tenths of your troubles are Imaginary. When you lay an egg, don't cackle too long lay another. Don't make hard work of recrea tion. Forget the hard work. One may become so great a cur that not even a dog will like him. The plow that wasn't wintered in the shed will not shed in the spring. What makes a farm prick up its ears more than to clean out the fence rows? Idleness and lawsuits go together. The busy man has no time to nurse little grudges. To knock is to pull back to boost Is to help folks get into the humor to really do things. 'Ware the chap who smiles when be hits an obstacle, and don't allow yourself your-self to be the obstacle. It's hard to reconcile the harvest fields with the Idea that there are not jobs enough to go round. Gunny-sacking screens over the barn doors and windows help to keep the flies where they belong. Success in farming depends largely upon proper marketing methods, cheap money and co-operation. Who says farming is dull, dreary, drudgery? That's a mistake. It's the liveliest business there is, if well done. Politeness pays, even with a mule. One needs to retain one's own self-respect, self-respect, no matter what the mule thinks about it. Calling a man a liar does not prove one's case, but it frequently proves that one man may have eyes of at least two colors. As an aid to matrimony one dimple Is worth 16 ounces of brains; as an aid to married felicity one brain is worth 16 dimples. If you are really doing the right thing you are usually so busy that you hardly have time to mention that you are doing pretty well. The successful farmer doesn't buy a farm, erect a home, stock up with implements and stand off and watch the Almighty do the work. |
