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Show Farmers' Educational rrjl and Co-Operative Union of America ; i ii i Matters f Especial Moment to I I the Progressive Agriculturist Conciliate; co-operate! Haste is a poor excuse. Love is greater than happiness. Hut the quiet hog gets the most slop. It's also a good idea to pay as you stay. Slacken the feeding while the teams stand idle. Nature is beautifully old-fashioned all the time. Gratitude is more a matter of deeds than of speech. The boarder cow often looks as good as a deacon. The long-headed clergyman preaches the shortest sermon. To be successful, a liar must keep in constant practice. We make it a rule never to blame the fish for not biting. It's a whole lot easier to keep right than it is to get right. Sometimes an explosive mouth is dangerous as dynamite. There are apt to be a few flies' in the honeyed phrases of lovers. A well-named farm Is apt to be chosen when selling time comes. It. would take a whole lot of rainy days to rob cherry pie of its charm. About all that a woman ever asks of a man is that he be halfway decent. de-cent. When ths widow goes gunning for No. 2 she always uses smokeless powder. pow-der. The man who apologizes never has to explain how he acquired that black eye. Some men get a reputation for goodness good-ness merely because they were born lazy. The more the average man sees of human nature the more respectfully he removes his hat and bows to his mirror. A large part of the success which it Is possible to gain on any' farm will depend upon the following of a proper system of crop rotation. Criticism is a good fire extinguisher. It will kill the fires of love, of hope, of faith, of purpose, of good desire, and substitute nothing but ashes. |