The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-02
THE EvER-READY FARMER.

oror-ready people? I know that there are lot
f these people, yet, after all, you must agree with
mo that there are In every State, and every coun-
~ and every town, a vast number of people who
oro never ready in anything. Cotton planting
time has come and land is not ready. 1t may be
tho fertilizers have not yet been hauled or Mixed
and then with planting the planter is stilled clog
oed ND with last years fertilizers and not in a
condition to do good work. Then the cultivating
season comes on and the never-ready farmer is
not ready to cultivate so that weeds and grass
NAV spring up and hinder his crop throughout the
growing season.
And then we have the ever-ready farmer. He
has planned his seasons work. Long ago he has
secured his seed He knows the field that is to
be planted. Long before the blowing took place
he had the vision in his mind how deep to rlow,
to do the work. This means the cotton planter
had long ago been cleaned and oiled and put in
readiness for the day when it has to be used.
Months ago he knew how much cultivation would
be needed so he had corresponded with manu-
facturerS and had gotten prices and made pur-
chases of such tools and implements as were need
ed to do his work. He did not wait until the
weeds came on, sapping the moisture and plant
the crop was ready for attention he had the tools
to do the work that needed to be done. And so
on the farm there are thousand and one things
that the ever-ready farmer is doing throughout
the long winter season and spring months get
ting ready for his great effort of summer &C
tvity His teams are in flesh and his harness is
oiled: his wagons and tools are repaired seed and
fertilizers have been delivered and gotten in readi
ness for use. and he goes with his work with
ease and without complaint.
Don't you think, good friends. is good
time to have real good heart t-to-heart talk with
yourself and discuss just what is before you SO
you be completely in readiness with deter
mination that you not going to be behind
with your seasons work? I am expressing myself
entirely from experience / know just what it is
to need tools and not to have them. know how
feels when the weeds growing in the
and cotton and you cannot get at them.
But the one resolution that I am trying to carry
out IL my farming effort is to be UP with my work
and to do the right thing at the right time to the
best of my ability. Farming is business, and
the successful farmer is a business To
succeed the successful farmer did not wait until
the day that he was going to use the plow to see
If it sharpened and in repair; to ascertain
whether the bolts, rings, chains and double-trees
and other essential things were in readiness; no,
that man succeeded and is succeeding because
he is ever looking after these very minute de-
tails. He is ever thinking of his work and utiliz-
ing his spare time by adjusting all of the diff
terent phases of his work so that they operate
without friction. He has lots of neighbors- this
ever-ready farmer Mr.. Put-of he sees every day.
Mr.. Behind-the-time rides along his road. Now,
suppose, all of us are more or less thoughtless
about the simple essential things, but I do hope
Tor the sake of modern agriculture, and for the
good of the better acrric,1lt,re that