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Show Farmers' Educational ("nl and Co-Operative Union of America Marten if Especial Moment to 1 U I the Progressive Agriculturist Science is a transitory belief, based on circumstantial evidence. Wonder if the solution of the tire problem isn't really in good roads? Consistency is a jewel that oftentimes often-times renders its wearer ridiculous. Defective hearing is frequently a case of neglected tonsils or adenoids. Many a man now wishes he had that silo he neglected to build last summer. Occasionally a man gets the best of it when he is looking for the worst. When a man is unreasonable the whole world seems to be the same way. The pipe-wrench is as handy to the farmer as a pipe dream is to the politician. poli-tician. A horse takes a nosebag because he knows there is nothing better coming com-ing up. Work plus work equals more work; work plus brains equals success. Which is yours? Folks work harder for the tinsel of commendation than they do for the real gold of attainment. Many a man gets a reputation for wisdom by surrounding himself with silence at the right time. Give a man all the praise you think him entitled to, and even then he may go off by himself and chuckle. "Lots of men remind you of an old horse that never tries to get up any speed until it' knows that it is on its way to eat." The man whose neighbors "never did uothin' fer him!" is still with us. but his numbers and influence are growing less. What have you done to build up your community life? Answer that before you talk co-operation of a few against the many. Some men's idea of co-operation is to have the government hire a man to do all the work, while the co-operator basks in the sun. Co-operative farming in the United States this year netted more than 400,000,000. Farming seems to pay almost any way you do it. There is so much good in the worst of us, so much bad in the best of us, that a co-operation by some ol us should be big enough for the rest of U8. |
