| Take good care of the farm tools. A crow-bar, if carefully housed when not in use, may, at a hundred years of age be just as pry as ever.
The man who sells six onions for a nickel cannot thrive,
For all can see that no one ought to give six scents for five.
In delivering a chair to the repairman to bottom he should be made to give a re-seat for it.
Feed the pigs well. A pig resembles a tree in one respect. It is by his root that he survives.
Farmers should encourage song birds to nest about the premises, but the lay of the hen must still bring them the most substantial delight.
It is when the farmer sees his fine crop maturing that he feels like singing, "In this wheat by and by."
In working about a mule that kicks, it should be remembered that his head-quarters are not his real business end. | 
