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Show NOTES BY AN OBSERVER. Wo of Utah are fond of music, but aro wo always Intelligently Interested in good music? We will never ho truly musical until wo learn to bo good listeners. America needs good listeners listen-ers far more than good performers, of whom she has many. If wo stop talking talk-ing when music begins and listen for true melody, deep emotions, real thought and originality, and not merely mere-ly for rollicking rhythms, wo will sixm be able to discriminate between tho (heap and the good, the trashy and the beautiful. If we demand good music, mu-sic, our talented friends wl give it to us. Since the exhibit train from the Agricultural Ag-ricultural College passed through Oasis we have noticed that tho well rotted manure of many years has been cleaned out of a number of corrals and spread over the fields. That Is the way to get rich utilize all avnlhh'o material, ami by careful planning avoid waste. With as much hard work as eastern farmers must put on their farms, this country could be mad-1 a veritable garden. Alfalfa crops come too easily and make us lazy. John Dewslllip of DeMcrct HCelllS to be the only man there who owns a m.inuro spreader, and yet it Is one of the most profitable things any farmer could on n. That old pieee of advice, "Use Jour head ami save your hands and leet," is a line motto for the farmer. If, instead in-stead of loafing around tho postofTice or tile stoles. In' would use bis head (on the days when the weather Interferes Inter-feres with farm work, then tie- i.cluu working days would yield a oigtvT net result. Such days could be spent lu small repairs about the place to make It more attractive and comfirt-able, comfirt-able, in studying out the best method and new ways of avoiding waste in time and material, or In some different, line of business. One enterprising man of Millard county spent Hie dull winter months as agent for some good kitchen utensils. Another busy young man works at insurance when he can't be at farm work. It is the head work that makes for success. |