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Show Farmers' Educational jf and Co-Operative Union of America Matter tf Especial Moment to I u I the Progressiva Afrknltarist Weeds cut down In their youth never go to seed. Many young people gather honey f.-otn the husking bees. The man who has not learned to aay "no" will have a great deal to unlearn before he succeeds. Laughter promotes digestion, good health, peace of mind, spreads cheerfulness cheer-fulness and is a deadly enemy of tbe grouch. We cannot bring rain when It Is Deeded, but we can keep the cultivators culti-vators going during tbe worst drought that ever happened. Worry cause melancholy, melancholy melan-choly causes bad health, bad health causes bad temper, despondency, and destroys good looks. Tastes differ. To some ears the contented grunting of a pen full of fat hogs is sweeter music than the rich notes of a grand opera alnger. If a boy Imagines that education will enable him to live without work, he I sadly mistaken. It will only enable bin. to work to belter advantage. A ni'ile uever had Indigestion from overeating. He never overeats. If some folks knew aa much as mules there would be a lot less doctors. According to scientists It takes almost al-most as much energy for a rooster to crow as It does for a hen to lay an egg but then you can get money for the egg. Times have eortalnly changed. In former years the squeak of a pair of new boots proclaimed prosperity, but now It takes tbe honk of an automobile automo-bile to do the same thing. Some men take the butter their wives have made and swap It at the grocery store for a weekly supply of tobacco, and then complain that they are too bard up to buy a modern , labor-saving churn. It would appear that farming formerly for-merly was all working and no thinking, think-ing, but now, according to the papers, i It Is all thinking and no working. It 1 takes a proper mixture of these to ! give the same good old fashioned re-i re-i suits, just the same. |
