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Show Farmers' Educational 7TI and Co-Operative Union of America Matters gf Especial Moment to i u ' the Progreuive Agriculturist I ' 1 The man who can't be counted on don't count. In the best farm homes order is law and orders few. There's no way of getting around not being on the square. You can't teach an old girl new tricks she knows 'em all. Some men in going to the devil take up entirely too much time on the way. Keeping the polish on a moldboard may be better than shining in society. Education and service are yoke-fellows. Don't attempt to separate them. Health is natural, disease is unnatural, unnat-ural, health is contagious as well as disease. A determined fool is more pleasant to contemplate than a hesitating philosopher. phi-losopher. More money spent on the hearthstone hearth-stone might mean less required for the tombstone. A plan in order to be workable must be practical; that it may be practical' calls for that. No man can ever gain a practical knowledge of the world by pursuing his studies In a rocking chair. Make up your mind what you Intend In-tend to do, make your plans accordingly accord-ingly and carry out your Ideas. Do something, read something, study something or think something during the time you are in the habit of doing nothing. The man who has more dollars than sense may not, however, have more dollars than a man of more sense ought to have. Do not forget that farmers are realizing real-izing that there is much more in being be-ing an up-to-date farmer than most of us used to think. Take an interest in other people. 'Then you will always have friends "who are interested In you. That makes it compound interest. Most farmers are reasonable in their wants. They only want what they need, and are patient when they can't get it Just when they need it. The young farmer who sticks as closely to his business as the city man has to do, to make a living, will have a homestead of his own some day. |