The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-13
Make Homes Beautiful

| such tOm.fOOlery-a tnat is lnsah-
ity.
Make Homes Beautiful
~ might make a plea for better
stage BUSINESS around your door
yards and barn yards. Farm homes
are the most beautiful places on earth
or the most NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 20
the business sense and ability of the
owner What right have you or any
farmer to spoil Gods beautiful land.
scape with unsightly barnyards? Take
your minds off of the blowing of your
| fields bit an dgive attention to the
| business of cleaning up and keeping
clean, the surroundings of your house.
Make and keep beautiful the spot
where your wife and daughters spend
"a hours of their day. Put the mach.
inery undercover, trim up the hedges
and the walks, clean out the stable
and haul away the soil That will
make more presentable houses and
more fertile fields. Show me mans
back yard, or barn yard, and will
tell you what kind of man ha is.
will tell you how far he is from fail.
ure-or success.
How Land "Peters Out"
Not long ago ! found il necessary
to stop for the night on farm in a
far away STATE. could not find a
curry comb-because some one had
borrowed II" some two years before.
1t was necessary to stable my ami
mails In fence corner out in the
opan--because the stable and barn
yard were ankle deep in filth Last
years hay stood in an ugly pile-not
a stack--in the barn yard. The newly
gathered corn was strewn along the
fence--not n sign or semblance of
shock, except to my sense of decency.
mower and its blades lay rusting
on the damp ground. Every fence on
the place was drunk and disorderly."
AS | stood at the ditch watering my
team-the place was innocent of
watering trough-my host confided in
me that the world was going to rack
and ruin; that the land was ''petering
out; that once he cultivated 100 ac.
res, but now half of it had grownster.
lie and unproductive 1--WE could smell
thetons of good fertilizer as we talk
ed)--his horses didn't seem to do
very well' (standng in slime over
their fetlocks).. What is the matter
there? That man is neither a farm
er or a business man. He is just
plain idiot
Be Business Men
AS said before, might plead
with you Tor better roads, attention
to the stage business of your farm,
etc, but my real plea to you tonight
is 10 be business men--to realize thai
tina merchant the banker, the buyer,
the seller, the lawyer, the doctor, the
professor, are your fellows in busin-
ness. They cannot possibly live with
out you and you can live better with
them. They are not all out to skin you
some of them have honest inten
tons and fair business methods. We
know that you are raising your crops
for our uses, but We really contem-
plate paying YOU something for them
Producing one thing. Selling Another |
As | said TO the fruit growers the
other day, producing a fine big red |
apple or peach is one thing while |
selling it and getting the money for
II is quite another thingI leave it 20
you as TO which is the most import |
ant. The business of packing and |
hauling, of advertising and selling, Of |
collecting and spending is the part |
OF your work that makes you a part |
of the business world. 1t is that part |
of your profession which makes
you rich or will impoverish you.
Neglect ii and the finest crops you
grow will avail you little. If you spend
81 or So an acre the growing of your
products, why not spend an equal
amount in the creating and finding a
market for them? If you want to sell
the fruit you raise FIVE years from
now spend 100000 this year in adver.
Using Utah fruit Vote to bond for
good roads so you can move your
crop when IL is ready to harvest. Boost
for Interurbans and improvements
that will attract capital and homeseek
ers. Why let the world remain bliss
fully ignorant of the fact that right
here in these valleys are grown the
best apples, the finest peaches, the
choicest celery, the most toothsome
asparagus md the mealiest "spuds'to
be found in the country? Why uot
take half the value of this years crop
spend Il in the business of managing