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Show RECORDS MAY MEAN SUCCESS Get a Good System and You Will Get Real Enjoyment Out of Finding What Results Are. (By O. S. RAYNER. Colorado Agricultural Agricultur-al College, Fort Collins, Colo.) The easiest, quickest and best way of doing things is sometimes the way which is hardest. The baseball pitcher comes off the diamond wringing wet with sweat. He works hard, but that was the easiest, the best and the quickest way for, him to win. You get pneumonia. The doctor says: "Take quinine." You hold up your hands in holy horror at the thought of its taste. You say; "No, give me a lump of sugar, or a bottle of popsomething easy to take." Do the latter and -you may be across the river Jordan before you know it; do the former and you will be back at work again in a few days. The way was hard, but it was the best, the quickest, and the easiest way to get well. Someone asks you if you keep records rec-ords on your farm. You give hi i to understand that you haven't time for such foolishness. Too much work! Too busy for that! Remember, that may be the easiest, the quickest and best way to your success. Business men have sometimes increased their profits as much as 300 per cent by knowing what they were doing. What does it cost you to grow a bushel of oats or a ton of hay? Are you selling alfalfa hay when you might better feed it to live stock? Keep some records. If you find this to be true, feed your neighbor's hay and make a profit on two crops instead in-stead of one. That is business. Some methods of farm bookkeeping are easier than others. Get a good method and enjoy keeping records. |