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Show Farmers' Educational rrjl and Co-Operative Union of America .. i Matters Especial Moment to I I tie Progressive Agriculturist The "wild oat" crop is seldom volunteer. vol-unteer. Faint heart ne'er whistled in tune to the harmonien of life. Credit' builds fortunes or digs graves, according as it is used. When dynamite kisses a bowlder it is good-by to plow-point worries. The catch crop beats the bank check when it comes to a feed shortage. short-age. The ready-to-use binder is not the one responsible for harvest-days' profanity. pro-fanity. A really learned man, is overwhelmed over-whelmed with the magnitude of what he doesn't know. Now and then you will find a man who imagines that whisky and liberty are synonymous terms. Society makes a man pay for getting get-ting drunk just as, John Tanner says, nature demands the heavier penalty. The truthful man upholds society but the liar is the miserable worm who seeks to destroy its foundation. Bear in mind the fact that a poor . tool in the hands of a $3-a-day harvest har-vest hand is not piofitable to the farmer. As a matter of fact the men who wake to find themselves famous invariably in-variably set the alarm and sleep with one eye open. Don't worry because of criticism. Truth is truth, and no argument against it or denial of it can avail anything in the long run. When a man is more interested in getting something out of life than he is in putting something into It he usually accomplishes neither. Some people think it terrible to grow old and have to walk with a cane, but we can't see how anybody can be real happy unless they have grandchildren. |