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men's work better than they have been trained 

 to do it. 



Did you ever notice how little people know 

 of their own business? Hardly a clerk can do 

 up a decent package, or even tie the string so 

 that it won't slip. So don't be overawed by 

 experience nor by success. Even the successful 

 man might have done much better if he had used 

 others' brains as well as his own. The trouble 

 is that men do not use their brains. As Dan 

 Beard says, " It hurts the head to think, try it 

 and see." 



To learn the rotation of crops and what things 

 can be double cropped or companion cropped, 

 what plants exhaust the soil and what restore it, 

 and what weeds can be turned over for manure 

 instead of being pulled up, and how deep to 

 plow, is more work and counts for more than 

 grubbing up stumps with a pick-axe. 



You can spend indefinite labor, or money 

 either, on an acre; your "think-box" must tell 

 you how and where your labor and money can 

 be most profitably spent and how to arrange 

 so that the labor won't all need to be done at 



