MAXIMS FOR THE IRRIGATED FARM 



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Cultivate as well as irrigate. 

 Irrigation is the best crop insurance. 



Never attempt to do more than can be 

 done well. 



The best savings bank for a farmer is 

 his manure pile. 



The strongest man is the man who 

 stands for an idea. 



The surest way to success is to do well 

 whatever you attempt. 



The man who enjoys his work as he does 

 his bicycle succeeds at it. 



There are more book farmers and less 

 blockheads than formerly. 



New conditions demand new methods in 

 farming as in other business. 



Workers make better progress than 

 kickers, whether horses or men. 



It is the man who masters the condi- 

 tions which confront him who succeeds. 



It is better to fill your own place in the 

 world well than to covet another man's. 



Great crops may make large business, 

 but low prices afford only small profits. 



Marketing the crop successfully is of 

 quite as much importance as growing it. 



The man who works so hard he cannot 

 think may with reason be classed as a fool. 



Intelligence is the tool which makes an 

 opportunity where none else will appear. 



Success depends more on the use of the 

 ability one has than 'on the abundance 

 of it. 



Study the application of water in irri- 

 gating for its permanent as well as pres- 

 ent results. 



The man who is better fitted for feeding 

 hogs than for growing fine fruit ought to 

 feed hogs. 



The farmer who works most by rule will 

 have the better results to show at the end 

 of the year. 



There is no place where careful atten- 

 tion pays better proportionately than in 

 the poultry yard. 



The farmer's welfare is the nation's 

 welfare; the last cannot exist in this coun- 

 try without the first. 



Drainage is the first necessity in road 

 making. Without it the best work will 

 fail to accomplish its purpose. 



It is a careless man who keeps no rec- 

 ord of his business, and this applies to 

 farmers as well as to other people. 



Don't sell all of the best and perfect 

 fruit; give the family a share. Few child- 

 ren enjoy eating the culls all the time. 



A man who is too busy to read the pa- 

 pers is too busy for his own good. It is 

 necessary to keep in touch with these rapid 

 moving times. 



When you see a man who has no gar- 

 den, orchard or fruit patch you may be 

 pretty certain he does not read. He scorns 

 the idea of being a " book farmer." 



The farmer who breeds mongrel cattle, 

 hogs or fowls will in time exhaust a big 

 bank account, if he has one, or will be- 

 come poverty stricken if he has not. 



But comparatively little of a man's ed- 

 ucation has come from books. Experi- 

 ence is the best teacher and its lessons are 

 never ended so long as intelligence lasts. 



A man in this age who waits for some- 

 thing to turn up is more than likely to die 

 before the turn comes. The one who 

 turns up something is the more useful man. 



The lucky farmer is universally the one 

 who gives the most careful, painstaking 

 attention to the details of his business, 

 whatever b'ranch of the industry he may 

 be engaged in. 



The American people do not like to be 

 humbugged in the fruits they buy, and 

 the grower who recognizes that fact when 

 packing for the market will act wisely for 

 his own interest. 



It is often better policy for the farmer 

 to sell some of the land he has than 

 to buy more. More land than is properly 

 and profitably cultivated is a burden, 

 rather than a benefit. 



