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American Agriculturist, March 17, 1923 
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Tomorrow Is Another Day 
Let's Forget Spilled Milk and Water Over the Dam 
I T has seemed to me 
of late that we are 
spending altogether too much energy— 
and that is equivalent to time and 
money—in an effort to find out what is 
the matter with us; or, really, if there 
is anything at all the matter, and to 
imploring outside agencies, chiefly leg¬ 
islation and co¬ 
operation to bring 
things up to our 
ideal of what 
they should be. 
The whole thing 
is nothing more 
or less than a 
type of gam- 
bling, which, fur¬ 
ther analyzed, is 
to g e t something 
without patient, 
steady, unadulter¬ 
ated hard work. 
Then some one 
asks me if I am 
H. E. COOK opposed to pres¬ 
ent - day methods 
through the above-mentioned channels 
to help us. Net by any means. God 
speed the good work, but I am unalter¬ 
ably opposed to leaning upon them and 
letting up at home. The cold, hard 
facts are that those who have done 
their whole duty at home are living 
as well as, and most of them better 
than, ever before. 
I don’t mean to measure the suc¬ 
cesses and failures in periods of single 
years, but in half-decades, or, perhaps, 
in ten years. Few of us are fitted to 
fairly judge 
these things. I 
have days and 
longer periods 
when I am sure 
the trend of farm 
living in its full¬ 
est and broadest 
sense is going 
backward. And I 
can prove it by 
any number of 
cases. Then a 
turn c 0 m 6 s in 
business at home 
and all seems to 
be reversed, and 
I can as surely 
demonstrate that 
agriculture is 
making wonder¬ 
ful strides. 
I can see that 
applied science 
has taught us 
how to feed our 
cattle, and dur¬ 
ing my memory 
hollow horn, wolf 
in the tail, or 
horn distemper, 
have gone, and 
none of the 
younger genera¬ 
tion will know 
what I am talk¬ 
ing about. 
Wormy and 
scabby apples 
were common in 
that same early 
day. Now they 
are not salable 
for cider. Dur¬ 
ing this same pe¬ 
riod animal heat and flavor have large¬ 
ly been eliminated from milk. I claim 
to be one of the original chocolate men, 
at any rate the froth on the milk pail 
had every appearance of being covered 
with something of a chocolate color. 
To-day we are producing milk so clean 
that a miscroscope almost loses its con¬ 
ceit when trying to find bacteria in it, 
and I have sold cheese in 1879 for one- 
third as much per pound as this milk 
brings per quart. In 1878 we hired a 
man for $13 a month and his keep, in 
1879 he worked for $14, and in 1888 this 
same man received the munificent sum 
of $15 a month, or $180 for the year. 
Now our men average nearly six times 
as much. 
Of course, the supplies are higher, 
too. But I feel quite sure that most 
farmers whose memory covers 50 years 
or more of business life will agree that 
our best bet for success is during pe¬ 
riods of comparatively high-labor costs. 
We distribute a por¬ 
tion of our certified 
milk in nearby villages retailed from 
a market where customers take it home 
under their arm. In the manufactur¬ 
ing village of Carthage, 23 babies are 
at present being fed, and in 10 of these 
homes the father goes to work each 
morning with a dinner pail, and he 
pays 20 cents a quart just the same 
as the other 13 customers. 
Good Wages for the Laborer 
It is obvious that I am in favor of 
good wages for laboring men. I do 
not think it has any bearing on the 
case, but it may be interesting to know 
that four of the ten are Italians. I must 
confess when I pay bills for repair 
work from plumbers and iron workers, 
I have to draw upon a stored-up feeling 
that we have a proper adjustment. 
After the bill is paid, however, I realize 
that they only come occasionally, while 
I am selling milk 365 days in a year. 
I hope we are not losing that old-time 
pioneer necessity of digging in harder 
and deeper, each one of us, when times 
appear to be against us. There is ab¬ 
solutely no other plan that will take the 
place of hard work. Now, hard work 
is not alone slaving on things we have 
done all of our lives. Nor is it neces¬ 
sarily doing a full day’s work in the 
field and doing the chores before and 
after, which is measurably, and some¬ 
times wholly, responsible for the exit of 
pretty nearly every laboring man from 
rural sections. Especially this is true 
where there is a family to care for. 
No, the hard 
work may come 
in working out 
methods that will 
shorten the work¬ 
ing day by elimi¬ 
nation of wastes 
of all sorts, bet- 
t e r systems of 
movement with 
applied facilities, 
carrying feeds to 
poor stock, seek¬ 
ing the cheapest 
ration for the 
largest net re- 
turn, working 
out field seeding 
and cultural 
plans, perhaps 
the production 
and sale of some 
crop not gener¬ 
ally sold in the 
locality. Hard 
work may come 
in better bar- 
gaining or 
through vision 
into the future. 
It is surprising 
when one comes 
to focus his en¬ 
tire mental out¬ 
fit on some par¬ 
ticular part of 
his business, how 
he can make 
things come his 
way. What do 
we call this pow¬ 
er — autosugges¬ 
tion, positive 
s u g g e stion, or 
something of that 
sort. I expect a good deal of the hard 
times in the West have come out of the 
high prices paid for farm lands. When 
land has a market value of from $400 
to $600 an acre and actual sales are 
made at these prices, the impression 
goes out at once that boom times have 
come. These prices were nothing more 
or less than gambling to such an ex¬ 
tent that when the bubble burst it would 
become a crisis for a good many peo¬ 
ple. If farmers expect prices of crops 
to be adjusted on these values, I am 
afraid they will be disappointed. 
The great producing areas of the 
woi’ld are too large to permit, unless it 
be for crops for nearby city markets. 
New York has felt humbled, agricul¬ 
turally speaking, because our farming 
lands had only a mild form of specula¬ 
tive advance. But now, when the 
squeeze is on, we feel thankful that we 
jagged along about as of yore. Every 
business has had about the same expe- 
By H. E. COOK 
Wasted Energy 
T here is a story of a man wno 
started in the morning for his place 
of business feeling well and full of en¬ 
thusiasm. Previously, several of his 
friends had agreed to try a practical 
joke on him. So, on this morning they 
met him, one by one and each made 
some different but plausible remark to 
the effect that he was not looking well 
or asking him if he was ill or telling 
him that he ought to he home in bed. 
The first remark of this kind dampened 
the man’s enthusiasm a little; the sec¬ 
ond made him begin to wonder if he 
were really well and by the time his 
fifth friend had remarked on his ill 
health, he concluded that he was a sick 
man, returned home and went to bed. 
Mr. Cook’s article reminds us of this 
somewhat exaggerated story. More and 
more folks are coming’ to realize that 
mental attitude makes considerable dif¬ 
ference with one’s health and with one’s 
business. Of course farmers have had 
and are having hard times- There is 
no doubt about it, but as Mr- Cook so 
well points out, there has been consider¬ 
able energy wasted by farmers them¬ 
selves and by their would-be friends 
trying to tell us how sick the farm 
business is or trying to get help from 
outside agencies. It seems sometimes 
that so much of this talk has a tend¬ 
ency to further discourage us and to 
make us look too much for help from 
the outside which will never come.— 
The Editors. 
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