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Show Farmers' Educational Fl and Co-Operative Union of America Matters jf Especial Moment to I u 1 the Progressive Agriculturist It is not necessary to be a hog to raise hogs. If you live extravagantly you may end up living extra vagrantly. A dozen interesting books will do much to keep a boy contented. Keep an account book and find out whether you are of any account. The pruning season for bad habits is of the same length as the year. We know farmers who do not believe be-lieve in vacations for their wives. The faith that removes mountains finds dynamite a most helpful partner Renting is paying for another man's farm and doing without things yourself. your-self. Money invested in happiness help3 put the tombstone man out of business. busi-ness. Treating the crowd when you owe a bill, is stealing the other man's money. The man who sows brome and reaps quack comes to believe in pure seed laws. The whitest of lies should be allowed al-lowed only in the "jim-crow" corners of the mind. The "farm labor" question is mainly main-ly a matter of more farms and less grain farming. No man can be depended upon to give his neighbors a square deal unless un-less he is honest with himself. Placing food for thought before those who are destitute of the means for consuming it is great waste. A family of growing boys and girls is a great inspiration to the development develop-ment of all that is best in a man. It's a whole lot easier to guess at things than to dig for facts, but guessing guess-ing is only one form of gambling. A man may show surface indications indica-tions of being "white all through" for a long time, but if he has a "yellow streak" in him it will be sure to show in time. Free speech doesn't mean liberty to say just anything that comes into your head; just try it, if you please, and you are pretty apt to get that head punched a little. |