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MAXIMS FOR THE IRRIGATED FARM 



It is a good weed that dies young. 



The proper study of the farmer is his 

 farm. 



Regularity is a first essential in caring 

 for stock. 



Any kind of a tree is a friend of man. 

 Plant them. 



The more a thing is worth the more it 

 costs usually. 



Good thinking is often a substitute for 

 hard working. 



Five acres well worked is better than 

 fifty neglected. 



Take care of your business and it will 

 take care of you. 



The mortgage is generally the heaviest 

 thing on the farm. 



The man who is wise knows best how 

 little he does know. 



It is as important to agitate for wide 

 tires as for good roads. 



It is sometimes the better economy to 

 spend rather than save. 



If you grow poor stock you may be sure 

 of a lean pocket-book. 



The best and easiest way of doing things 

 is the most economical. 



Slipshod work in any thing never pro- 

 duces satisfactory results. 



The less cash a man has, the more 

 necessity to use his brains. 



Early training is as good for the four- 

 legged animal as for man. 



Good tools and the best machinery are 

 the most reliable farm helpers. 



Who abandons an old friend for a new 

 one will not long have any friends. 



The farmer who does not begin irriga- 

 ting is sleeping on his opportunities. 



A principle that should never be for- 

 gotten by the stock raiser like begets 

 like. 



Cultivators of the soil should not over- 

 look the necessity to cultivate the man as 

 well. 



Good treatment for the hired hand will 

 make a large addition to the value of his 

 labor. 



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Gardening cannot be learned in a day, a 

 week or a year. No more can general 

 farming. 



A hard surface is out of place in the 

 corn field, but it is just the thing for the 

 road. 



It is the finishing touch in almost every 

 class of productions that yields the larg- 

 est profit. 



It is not good business judgment to buy 

 good seed and plant them carelessly in 

 poor land. . 



It is well to remember that your horses 

 and cows have nerves, and to treat them 

 accordingly. 



The better the fruit the more valuable 

 the tree. Take care, then, in the selection 

 for an orchard. 



Road making should begin at home. 

 Well drained and bridged farm lanes are 

 a paying investment. 



The man who does not know what is in 

 his soil can hardly be capable of judging 

 what can be taken out of it. 



There is no farmer who knows it all, and 

 if he lived to be a century old there would 

 still be something to learn. 



By co-operation the farmer can buy at 

 wholesale. If, then, he sells at retail he 

 increases the margin of profit. 



Make the farm home more attractive 

 than the city homes if you would have 

 your children stay there contentedly. 



The difference of success between one 

 man and another is generally in the quali- 

 ty of the brain rather than the work of 

 the hands. 



If farmers generally were educated 

 practically on the farm, and under intelli- 

 gent teaching, there would be fewer fail- 

 ures among them. 



It is the American idea to give all public 

 questions a public hearing, and it is as 

 conducive to agricultural improvement as 

 to political or social. 



Many co-operative companies fail be- 

 cause of too much individuality in the 

 management. True co-operation is by 

 rule of the majority, all working earnestly 

 to a common end. 



