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Show Farmers' Educational Tn and Co-Operative Union of America Matters jf Especial Moment to I I the Progressive Agriculturist There is always time enough if we begin in time. Lots of us are too slow in picking up fast friends. If a word to the wise Is sufficient, few men are wise. "Tell it to the neighbors" If you want to get into trouble. Never Joke with a bulldog or a surly man they're akin. When Brains and Hands work together to-gether the winning is sure. Every day is the best day of the year if you only think so. The long-headed man doesn't plunge headlong into new ventures. The man who laughs at providence is not a joke, he is a tragedy. Be thankful for play; It makes you fit to do your duties day by day. Is there a community organization in your community? If not, why not? The profit-making farm is the one where headwork lightens handwork. Let something be done every minute. min-ute. That's got some farm-purpose in it. You have no business being pessimistic pessi-mistic if you are in the farming business. busi-ness. The man who snores in his sleep has a good excuse for not going to church. Many a good Christian farm woman has to juggle with a most unchristian old stove. The meanest people are the ones who are continually telling what the other fellow did. Diversified farming and crop rotation rota-tion are the two best antidotes for farm mortgages. It takes a ten-year-old boy and a holiday in the woods to show us how many questions we cannot answer. A splendid way to establish a mutual co-operative spirit in an institution is for every workman to become a stockholder. stock-holder. When some folks talk they wobble so you wonder where they will come out. The plain, unvarnished truth never flops around in that way. If the poor farmer profits by cooperation co-operation it is obvious that there are even greater returns for the rich man in this new way of doing business. The man who contents himself with the thought, "I am not as bad off as my neighbor and things might be worse," will always be a slave to his fear. |