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Show SOUND ADVICE TO FARMERS Retired Agriculturist Is Nuisance in Town Neighbors Glad to Get Rid of Old Codger. Prof. P. G. Holden, the agricultural expert who has been lecturing In the West on crop topics, particularly alfalfa, in addition to his lecture on alfalfa gives some good advice to his farmer hearers. Among other things he says: "When you have grown old and rich on the farm, don't move to town. A retired farmer is a nuisance in town, when he moves there simply to die cheap. He is against all improvements, improve-ments, because such things cost money, and he wants to keep his taxes down. Stay on your farm. Don't buy more land, but improve what you have. Put in a system of waterworks, so you can take r "mill once in a while. Put In a lighting plant, so. you can read newspapers and books without straining your eyes, and keep well informed. Stay on your farms, and when you finally pay the debt of nature your friends and neighbors will regret your death and there will be a procession half a mile long following fol-lowing you to your grave. But if you move to town you won't have much of a procession, and the neighbors will say that it is a good thing the close-fisted close-fisted old codger Is out of the way." This Year's Cotton Acreage. Among the estimates as to what the cut In cotton acreage will be, It has been reported that the Texas farmers mean to reduce thplr acreage 25 per cent, while Oklahoma will probably make a cut of 30 per cent, says New York Post. Advices from Alabama say that the state will probably reduce re-duce its acreage 25 ..per cent, and, moreover, that 00 per cent less fertilizer fertil-izer will be used. It is said that the farmers of that state had not meant to make so large a cut. hut were urged to do so by the merchants who supply their wants. Woman in Evidence. Nowadays we often read about the woman in business; and nowhere In she more in evidence than on the farms. Every woman Is her husband's ; partner, but many a man never considers con-siders her as such. ri Day of Power Machine. .4 The day of Hie power machine on the small farm has arrived. We can now find people who are willing to plow or cultivate or do practically any work with the tractor adapted to an 80-ecre place. |