MAXIMS FOR THE IRRIGATED FARM. 



Look out for Number 2- your wife. 



Keep an eye on the man under your own hat. 



A short road to wealth is seldom safe to travel. 



He is always a slave who lives beyond his means. 



The true joy of reward is in the labor which wins it. 



Don't try to grow profitable crops on impoverished 

 soil. 



It is an easy thing for a lazy man to overwork him- 

 self. 



A "gold brick " deal always has a rascal on both 

 sides. 



Tickling the earth causes the fields to laugh with 

 crops. 



Most people enjoy the music of interest bearing 

 notes. 



One never grows fat by having to eat his own 

 words. 



It costs just as much to harvest a poor crop as a 

 good one. 



The man with a grievance is often a grievance to 

 his friends. 



The easiest way to appear wise is to keep your 

 mouth shut. 



It is much easier to hatch ideas than to bring them 

 to maturity. 



A plant that won't stand shallow cultivation the 

 human mind. 



The toe of your boot is not a good thing to caress 

 your cow with. 



You would'nt irrigate a wet swamp; or use nitrogen 

 on a clover crop. 



A trifling dog is generally not half as trifling as the 

 man who keeps him. 



A sluggard is a fellow who takes the hardest way 

 to have an easy time. 



A man's life is too short to learn by his own practice 

 all that needs to be known. 



Who can give to another the hind-sight he has had 

 so roughly ground into him? 



Most ol us have all the moral courage we want, but 

 not half as much as we need. 



Out of nothing comes nothing. If you do not feed 

 the soil it will not long feed you. 



The gossip resembles the bee, in that she is always 

 busy, and carries a sting in her tale. 



Don't sit down and wait for your crop to grow. It 

 has got to be " raised " by manual labor. 



The best way for a man to get out of a lowly posi- 

 tion is to be conspicuously effective in it. 



Many men, if they possessed a " title clear to a 

 mansion in the skies" would mortgage it. 



I never enjoy a man's theories about the govern- 

 ment wl o cannot manage a ten-acre patch. 



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A bulge on a meat-can indicates something wrong 

 inside, the same as with heads or stomachs! 



Don't sow alfalfa in your orchard unless you want 

 to kill the trees. The experiment has been tried. 



The worm in the whisky distillery will do more 

 damage to the farmer this summer than the cutworm. 

 The water that makes the foam under the mill 

 dam, is not the water that turns the wheel of the mill. 

 The stalk of corn that grows the tallest and ap- 

 pears the most conspicuous nearly always bears a 

 blasted ear. 



He who plants a melon patch too near the public 

 highway can scarcely be regarded as a promoter^of 

 public morals. 



The man who never speaks gently to his horses is 

 the same man who never speaks kindly to his wife, 

 or to his children. 



The pear-leaf blight is caused by a minute para- 

 sitic fungus. Spraying with (the new) Bordeaux mix- 

 ture is a sure remedy. 



It is easier to formulate a system of national finance 

 than to earn an honest dollar. Honest dollars are 

 only made by hard work. 



Would you deprive your children of the keen en- 

 joyment you have experienced in building up a home 

 of your own by giving them one already built? 



Both in art and in practical life one should avoid a 

 blind worship ot the extraordinary ; we too often be- 

 stow admiration when only curiosity is called for. 



Men are aided by books and papers treating upon 

 their vocation, but reading alone will not fit one for 

 doing any great work. Neither will a friend's advice. 

 Its the condition of the peach buds rather than the 

 cold that determines the peach crop. Its you rather 

 than your circumstances that determine your life's 

 crop. 



Said an ex-drunkard while enjoying " a pipe, " " I 

 am a brand plucked from the burning." "Ambody 

 might know that," said the old lady, " for you're 

 smokin' yet! " 



Have you read the article on how to tell a bad egg? 

 " No, I haven't, but my advice would be, if you have 

 anything important to tell about a bad egg, why 

 break it gently." 



If you had to believe all that other people say in 

 their own favor, you would soon be obliged to do 

 some lying on your own account, or else fall behind 

 in the procession. 



You needn't take a man's word for it that he has 

 dropped from the clouds, because there is no dust on 

 his shoes. May be his wife blacked them before he 

 was up in the morning. 



When a stranger treads on your toes, who does not 

 feel as did the German who said, '' Mine frient, I 

 know mine feet vas meant walking on, but dot 

 brivilege belongs to me"? 



