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HORTICULTURE 



May 5, 1917 



WAGON I 



To What Are You Hitching Your Wagon | 

 A Kerosene Lamp Or a Star? 1 



liW"^ OOLi question" you say. 



P "One that doesn't mean a thing. " 

 But doesn't It? 

 Ivet's see. 



When you were a kid. going to school, didn't your 

 teacher every so often give talks on what the boys 

 called "shove-along stuff?" 



Talks that were intended to inspire you and me to 

 do big things, when we grew big? 

 And don't you remember how that same teacher used 

 to tell us, to "hitch our wagon to a star"; with the 

 idea of inspiring us to aim high? 

 Count on your fingers right now, the number of 

 school fellows who really have made a good sized 

 business success. 

 Not so many are there? 

 Wonder why? 



Don't you suppose it is because they hitched to a 

 kerosene lamp or a candle instead of that star? 

 When you were building Iron Frame houses; they 



were still hanging on to the all wood, or halt and 

 half kind. 



When you were building wide houses, they were still 

 putting up that talk about, "plants doing better the 

 nearer the glass they are." 



Last year when you saw the prosperity wave coming 

 and at once ordered another big Iron Frame house; 

 they put up a "holler" about the high cost of mate- 

 rials, and stood still. 



They just plumb lost sight of the fact, that if you get 

 high prices for your stock; your materials actually 

 cost you no more, than when materials are lower, 

 and prices are lower. 



Figuring it out so successfully for yourself, the way 



you did last year; of course you will do the same 



this. 



Having hitched your wagon to a star; you can't 



stand still on the shelf with the kerosene fellows. 



You know we go anywhere for business. Or to talk 



business. 



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