Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-19

pers every evening--that Is, he makes u
II practise to look one over. and mark
with a pencil all the articles that he
feels sure contain some valuable infor-
following evening, when after skim
ming" another, he takes II down. reads
the marked articles slowly. and takes
time TO digest them A notebook hes
when he reads an item OF great value
he makes a note Of II for ia ure use.
After reading the marked articles and
making his notes he goes over the adyer-
tisemonts In which ne 50 interested ana
whenever he finds one that strikes him
as being worthy of Invest CATION, he lots
down the address Of the advertiser. By
this means be gets all the cream of the
papers, and keeps in the 'front.' rank OF
live, enterprIsng farmers.
He said n hes many times recommend
ed his plan Of keeping up with the uwcs
TO hard-woring farmers who declare
them have adopted ii but most OF thorn
work 80 hard ana SO late that they are
In no condition TO read on think clearly
when they get into the house a. night
lie declares ne is wcll satisfied that the
hour he spends with his agricultural pa
per I'm the evenings has been worth
thousands Of dollars 20 him. ilc said
further that while he Us generally oon-
sidorod hard worker, hc has never
worked too hard to enjoy his evening
reading "Whn a man works too hard
or makes his day too lons,' SAID he "ho
Is In no condition fer mCutal enjoyment
for reading or study after supper, Tie
wants "a We down at once and sleep;
and that's what thousands OF farmers do,
ana that's why they drop iGtl tuts and
gct behind the times single article I'm
one Of my pap.rs t5d me, over SD
tsrmcnt snycd me sl2 IN the purchase OF
u single implement 10 pays to take time
TO rtud Whon me reading dement's ono
over so in hard cash IN a single year
Another man standing by g1iI that
while he had no rule by which ha read
his papers he often hal been reminded
Of tho fact that a man must read TO
keep up with the procession This rs an
age Of progress ana The man who wants
to be successful must keep himself thor
Oughly informed Ny doing SO he can both
make ana save. lie said that there was
tmo when he thought Agricultural pa
pers wcrC Of no value O. "a farmer but
one little matter caused him to change his
mind. lie 80 very fond Of grapes, ana
during their season cats large quantities
Of them. lie hal one vino each OK Moorc'5
Early, WordCn and Niagara, aud they
supplied him just enough to mako him
real hungry for grapes An agent Cano
along, and he described the kinds he had
so PANTY that the agent ognizcd them
at once and took his order for % vines
at 80 cents each, When he was setting
them out, a noighbor who had often
asked him 20 subscribe for q farm pa
per he was taking dropped IN, and asked
lin what he was planting. lie told him
what they were and what they cost. The
neighb0r Chuckled little, then asked hild
what he had been doing with the prun-
ings Of the vines he had cut on the past
several years, He had been throwing them
in the hog pen. "Why the dickens didn't
you make cuttings of them, and grow
your own VinCs-as many as you WANT
asked the ncighbOr. That was a new
wrinkle TO the planter, and he asked how
1t was done, The neighbor told him that
al he had 20 do was to cut the prunings
into short lengths having a bud, or joint
at each end stick the lower end In the
ground, leaving the top bud just even with
the surface, mulch along each side Of the
row with coarse manure, or straw and
about six cuttings out Of ten would grow
and make good plants the first year
quite as large as those he had paid 30
cents apiece for, or, he said IL he
wanted larger and stronger plants, he
could lay one Of the vines IN trench
about four inches deep, leaving "A bud
about every 10 inches uncovered, but COW
ering all the rest. and tan urt
firmly When the leaves came of in the
fall he could cut the vine OFF near the
main root, dig 1t up. and he would have
three to six or more good strong plants
to set out All this would have cost
nothing but n little time. lie asked the
neighbor how he learned all this. From
that paper | have asked you to subscribe
for so often" he replied. Guess I'll try
It year" said the other, For seven years
he has been taking four farm papers,
Farm and Fireside.