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Show ADVICE GIVEN TO FARMERS Every Branch of Business Is Benefited Bene-fited by Interchange of Views Practical Suggestions. (By A. N. MILLER.) Sometimes I feel annoyed at the freedom with which people give advice ad-vice to farmers. At times it looks as though all the farmers needed guardians, guard-ians, judging by the amount of unsolicited un-solicited advice they receive from city people. I do not mean to resent good, timely, sensible talk giving new ideas or practical suggestions. We all need that. Every branch of business is helped by an interchange of views, but it will relieve my mind to say that the average farmer knows his business better than any other people possibly can. The chief trouble with the man in the country is that he is what they call unsophisticated. He does not put up much of a front. He is slow and careful, but that does not mean that he is stupid. Some of the best thinkers I have ever known were men who could not express themselves well and could not meet people in a bright way and let them know what was on their minds. Such farmers make poor bargains. They buy wrong and sell wrong and are apt to be imposed upon by glib brokers, agefits, merchants and other city people with whom they have to do business. |