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MAXIMS FOR THE IRRIGATED FARM. 



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Better de seat deceit. 

 Let the big I become wee, 

 Slough off the despondency. 

 Don't toughen a tender heart. 

 Your hat is your top-dressing. 

 Kerosene will destroy tree borers. 

 Better try dieting than die eating. 

 A "pressing knead" for the bread. 

 What saves stomach pillage? Fruit. 

 Didst ever hear of a righteous wrong? 

 Prepare your hotbeds for next season. 

 "Birds off a feather" moulting hens. 

 The book (keeping) farmer is all right. 

 A false friend is an adulterated a-dult. 

 Be consistently persistent in the right. 

 Plant lice can't bite they are "suckers. " 



A good journal is a study in black and 

 white. 



An eclipse of the son Keeping the boy 

 down. 



Go bury your biliousness in the berry 

 patch. 



You must be if you'd gain a point a 

 live (?) 



Tomatoes are good, profitable winter 

 vegetables. 



The best or worst age for a cow may be 

 her lineage. 



Why don't you consider it a privilege to 

 help others? 



A man often hits his enemy harder by 

 not striking. 



The hog wants a pen-shun in that al- 

 falfa pasture. 



Better to cultivate than harrow your 

 wife's feelings. 



Does irrigation need more preachers or 

 more practicers? 



Cultivate young orchards thoroughly the 

 first three years. 



Lots of people suffer from the back-tear- 

 e-er of a heavy lift. 



Clay and flat soils are benefitted by the 

 application of lime. 



If you practice what you preach, you 

 are one of a thousand. 



Don't aerate your opinions too much 

 they might blow away! 



Better curry favor with your horse by 

 means of a currycomb. 



A school-house ought to be a hot house 

 for starting young ideas. 



Before you attempt an off-hand answer, 

 have your facts on hand. 



The worst "dead head" on your farm is 

 the head that won't think. 



The gardener who has the most success, 

 often has the most failures also. 



You haye "cussed" that luck of your'n 

 long enough. Try to dis cuss it. 



Use all the winter water possible. It 

 will be so much saved next summer. 



Be a "green goods man" to the extent 

 of raising green goods in your garden. 



The easiest-keeping stock is a hydraulic 

 ram. It runs on air with a little oil. 



A sneer is generally the facial expres- 

 sion of known, but unadmitted defeat. 



The worst thing about a "crank" is that 

 he generally connects with a wind pump. 



How many times have you "taken a 

 fool's advice" by "having your own way?" 



Too much food for the cat creates "that 

 tired feline" which causes joy among rats. 



When there is a "screw loose" in the 

 head, it is generally on the hinge of the 

 tongue. 



