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Show Farmers' Educational fiTI and Co-Operative Union of America Matters sf Especial Moment to I 1 the Progressive Agriculturist To make a success of farming avoid extremes. Something is always cropping out on the ranch. The horse that wins is the horse that holds out. The boosting and the boasting people peo-ple have little In common. Running a tractor is a man's Job. Be big enough to handle it. The first step in efficient government govern-ment is the efficient citizen. Like fruit, opportunities should be picked before they are too ripe. Teach the boys business methods; how to buy and sell well and honorably. honor-ably. Virtue usually is not so blind but that it can take notice when ' Folly winks. Inefficiency is the unknown quantity that dumps many a business enterprise. enter-prise. What is the good of a silver lining to a cloud if a fellow has no aeroplane? aero-plane? If the landlord "skins" the tenant the latter may be expected to "skin" the land. The farm is a place for work, and the more efficient the work the greater great-er the returns. Ever hear a story at the saloon that was fit to tell in the home? All froth and foolishness. Sometimes a poor boy's best college is a good farm paper and a stock of energy and common sense. How does your son spend Sunday on the farm? In quiet, gentlemanly ways, or in boisterous hoodlumism? The stock market continues very wobbly considering what a plethora of prosperity the country is enjoying. enjoy-ing. Why use your mouth for a crematory crema-tory to disinfect the air with tobacco, when you need all that money in your business? One cannot deposit his health in a bank and draw interest on it, but it pays big dividends to the man who takes care of it. The man whose name stands for -small measure and short weight will find that it will take years to undo such a reputation. Farming isn't all money, neither is It all work and no pay if there is ability behind the farm and if farmers farm-ers in their business will act co-oper-tively. |