The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-12

making his selection of seeds. This is the farmers educational season of the year. A time when the long evenings should be spent in reading the leading agrieul- tural papers, also the time of year to attend the farmers institutes. The facts are, when once we learn to make good use of our time, we will always want to be engaged at something useful
 This season of the year is good time to do some missionary work. l have out lined what education and industry has done for our country the past year and we want to make the new year even bet ter in every way. As before stated if we can only get all our idlers to join us in this great work of development, if we can take the idlers who spend their time around saloons and pool halls, get them out on the farms and make them producers instead of consumers, it will add much to our coming prosperity. We have room and profitable employment for all New farms are to be opened, old ones to be rebuilt, factories. and mines to be opened, roads to be built and in many other lines can employment be found. The man who sits down or goes around claiming the world owes him a living is a. poor citizen. The world owes no man anything, but each and every one owe something to the world. Each one should be striving in some way to make the world better There is plenty to do if we are looking for work.
 Will Give Help.
 On the first of last year I made the announcement that I was ready and will ing as far as I was able to help our readers improve their farms and to give them such information as would enable them to grow better crops and to inn prove their conditions generally. At this, the beginning of another year, am ready and willing to make the same promise. If our readers will decide upon what crops they will plant, and if there is any Information needed as to the best methods of preparing soils and plant foods for these crops, and if our readers will let their wants be known, shall do my best to assist them. We should join in one grand effort to make the farms of our country produce more than they have in the past. What we need is great CT crops, and while we are producing these crops, we should do so without ex- haustlng our soils. Instead, the lands should be left in a higher state of culti- vation than they were at the first of the year.
 Let the coming year be the greatest in the history of our country. We need more stock, more grass, more grain, more
 
 ducts and we need and must have more canning plants, more creameries and more factories. We need more farmers insti- tutes and we need more farmers reading our best agricultural papers. We want to reinforce our great army of busy workers by bringing in all idlers and all who are or have been only producing enough to keep soul and body together and show them how to use their time and energies in way that will make life worth living.
 shall hope to hear from our readers frequently during the coming year. Write The Age-Herald and give other readers the benefit of your experiences-a gen eral exchange of opinions. In conclusion, let me say again, do not forget to at- tend the farmers institutes and if you do not have one fin your neighborhood, you should get your neighbors together and organize one. There should be a farmers institute in every school house throughout the country.
 Wishing to one and all our readers a happy New Year, close, awaiting your pleasure in any way that I can be of service to you.