MAXIMS FOR THE IRRIGATED FARM 



If you starve your land it will starve 

 you. 



Frequent cultivation helps out irriga- 

 tion. 



The rougher the surface the longer the 

 road. 



Poor roads cost most and are worthless 

 always. 



Stunt a calf and it becomes a poor in- 

 vestment. 



Adversity may bring blessings, though 

 disguised. 



A manly man meets and overcomes 

 difficulties. 



It is the attractive goods that command 

 best prices. 



Fruit is one of the best medicines, and 

 the cheapest. 



Do your best and you need not fear 

 consequences. 



There is a right way and a wrong way 

 to do everything. 



Many start all right but do not hold 

 out as they begin. 



A single weed may furnish seed to stock 

 a farm. Don't let it. 



Fruit growing is not a business to be 

 undertaken by mossbacks. 



Turn the soil early in the fall and 

 plant it early in the spring. 



If you send inferior stuff to market you 

 cannot hope for high prices. 



You can't live long enough to learn all 

 there is to know about farming. 



If you cannot know but one thing it is 

 better to know that thoroughly. 



It is one thing to know what ought to 

 be done, and quite another to do it. 



The best machine for the conversion of 

 corn into money, is a well-bred hog. 



Think Can you tell why there are so 

 many gray horses and no gray colts ? 



Buy shoes at the close of the day when 

 your feet are at their maximum size. 



It is not good sense to breed a class of 

 animals for which there is no demand. 



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Flowers, in doors and out, are the most 

 attractive of all forms of ornamentation. 



Those who loaf at the store and whittle 

 are not the fellows who raise good crops. 



The little things that farmers cannot 

 find time to do are sometimes most im- 

 portant. 



The alfalfa farmer of the west makes 

 many blades of grass grow where one 

 grew before. 



Diversified crops, careful attention, 

 patience and perseverance contribute to 

 success in farming. 



Save it all and make the most of the 

 farm manure; it is an important resource; 

 to waste it is criminal. 



It is the food it eats that keeps the ani- 

 mal warm. If fed in the open air it takes 

 so much the more fuel. 



A farmer cannot know too much about 

 his farm, and he ought also to know some- 

 thing about the markets. 



It takes a very conscientious man to 

 hold to the straight and narrow path when 

 the pocket nerve is involved. 



It is not a prudent farmer who wastes 

 the feed in winter which it has cost so 

 much labor in summer to produce. 



Rotation of crops is one of the best 

 preventives against the spread of the 

 various pests and worms that feed on 

 different farm products. 



It is a patent fact that reading farmers 

 are as a rule the prosperous ones. Bead- 

 ing stimulates thought, and the more a 

 farmer thinks, the bigger his crops will be. 



Your grandfather might have been a 

 good man and your father before you, but 

 times now and then are different. It is 

 the present to which you must adapt your- 

 self. 



Andrew Carnegie, speaking to the Cor- 

 nell students advised them that the wise 

 man would put all his eggs in one basket 

 and then watch the basket; in other words 

 adopt a specialty and get to understand 

 the one thing perfectly. 



