The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-04-13
Farmers COOPERATIVE
Union of America.

Treat the candidate like a gentle
man when he calls on you. You have
| to have officers to fill all the depart
ments of the government, and If you |
act so sinking mean that you drive |
! the gentlemanly candidates out your
range, you will have only the other
sort to become acquainted with. Some
men have acted so silly toward a man
that was a candidate that the candi-
date was thoroughly disguised. That
sort of a feeling takes good men out
of the running, and if it comes to hay.
ing to be insulted in order to get
vote, the gentleman takes the other
end of the proposition. One reason
today for the sort Of men We have
holding many Of the offices in this
country is the sort OF opposition a
decent man has to meet among the
people ard on the hustings. Treat a
candidate like a gentl man and tell
} him the truth You need officials as
9 bad as he needs the place.
i 1t is a powerful busy time now, but
, that is the very reason for better at
+ tendance at the meetings. You need
; more consultation now, and you need
the opportunity to meet in friendly
intercourse with your neighbor now
- while your time is so taken up thai
y YOU don't get out often. Don't neglec
y the meetings, and, above all, don't g
= with an empty pate. Think up some
~ thing and let that thought he matured
~ Deg raising is INDUCED in too largl
y " on many farms. The dog Is eatin
~ up the keep of a pig right straigh
along.
-, It is now the right time for stoppin
the growth of noxious weeds about tn
80 place. Nipped in the bud, there WI
be no trouble; but little later
=. there will be no end Of trouble. kef
80, 'em down while they are already dow
- Say, Good Woman, don't think ju
Lecause you live in the country tn
YOU can go around Cooking just iii
de any old thing" You have as good
ing husband as the wife in the town, al
g lis pleasure should be worth as mu
tie as that of the town man. Fix up
me little and try to look like God ma
ed, you to look. 1t is as much of Woma
4 duty to look pretty as it is for her
me make good pies. Take care OF 20
sef.
Ing Now, If you have managed to
'os some of your bees through the whit
get at them right now and see q
''ch they're fixed up so that they can
asS comfortably and profitably at VIC
Ing See that the hives are arranged II
With GOOD nos,t,o, .nd that there Is moth
.oau the matter with the colonies. II
lhe are one of the greatest sources
Sihs pleasure on the farm, when all 6
llol well, and one Of the most disappo
ing if they do not get on right,
cad the getting on is generally In
pres hands of their owner.
How many of you farmers are tr
ing your wives and children just rig
r' They are all partners in the busin
w., and should be treated as such, but
'A'' should understand that they are
~" the head of the firm. They are emit
" to al the profits and pleasures arr
from the conduct of the business
anybody is entitled to, but they
do 81 not the managers, If the man Is
o"e" right sort of a person to manage
'tin'' thing; they are the helpers.
you
max. The courts will not knock out a
don't ducers' combine any more than
, like will a packers combine. A produ
been combine could esaiy bring a pac
combine to terms.
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w IT. they have pulled there by polit
N the ropes. The man who climbs to
2 best top, one step at time, will r
gy IN stumble He knows the entire
make and he knows it is impossible for
2 just to fall down the way he came W
more he has builded well beneath him
dozen his structure has been thorol
make tested at every step. Learn to d.
now, thing well, young man, and you W
| thin, a benefaetor to yourself and .
cceed. who may live after you. O.
K