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i keep yer eyes open, and one better job with poor tools than yund tellin what they'd 'do if the chance they need, but d yer can't buy neither of im on the road ter success it nes could ever have done. Farmers is kickin about gettin from the city. Well I wouldn't mind bettin the old briudle cow agin next year's honey crop, that the men they're gettin is jest good as the city fellers has ter work fer them, A feller must have some sand if he comes out ter the country ter work when we're all tellin folks what a tough job farmin 1s. Ter day we has ter do the Best we kin with what we got. © Tt ain't no great credit ter lick a hundred men with a thousand, but when a thousand is licked by the hundred, i it's then thatthe king puts on his specs and sorts over thr medals ter see what's the best ones he kin spare fer the fellers what did what "couldn't be done." Now, all fanmers ain't grumblers.. A lot.of 'em does the best they kin with what they got. Joe Blodgley was in the other day, and he said --They wants us ter quit feedin wheat ter the stocd, so's ter be able ter send it ter the boys at the Front, and that's right. I quit. My cattle won't be finished up quite so good; but I ain't goin ter worry none over 'that. = Some farmers claim they can't git nobody ter work fer them. I kin. I pays the money ter git the man, and then I fixes things so's the man'll earn his money and make a bit of profit fer me ter the good. It kin' be done." When a farmer hires a man he don't git somebody ter do the work -80's he kin sit round and Loss the job. That farmer's bought a chunk | = of labor and he's got ter make it pay same as any other investment. A hired man ain't no excuse fer the farmer ter do a lot of loafin., Ter my mind the boss orter be the leader. i If a farmer don't think he's got enough work ter keep a man busy all the time, he'd better buy a few more head of stock, or put in. a few more acres of crop. i Most of our farms ain't more'n half worked anyway, and there's money in workin the farms good these days. Plenty of farmers 'nd get along first rate if they had the courage ter hire a man the year round. But they worries along with odd days work or a man fer a month or two, And bein short banded he loses a critter here and a bag of taties the. The fences gits run down and his cattle "breaks inter his pet wheat field. He saves a heap on hired help, but he loses a 'mighty sight on the general rundown on the farm. If the farmer wants ter win in this big production campaign, he's * got ter make a race'of it. And we got ter take a few chances. Yes, there's got ter be more of a game in this farminjob. Most on us is that dead serious you'd think we'd been born undertakers and there badn't been i undertakin jobs ter go round, so we bad ter go farmin, Don't get no notion that farmers never grumbled afore the war. Some on 'em learned the grumble langwidge when they was babies, and has added a lot of words of their own since, = The only way ter git a, big lot of work done is ter lay out a little 'more'n yer think yer kin do, and then make up yer mind and body ter doit. I mind one time I was sot ter cut a field of buckwheat with a cradle. By all the rules of the game 1 shouldn't have been able ter do the job in a day. But I kinder said ter myself, "Joshua; yer got ter git that there job done ter day," and then like a boss wins a hossrace, I got that field cut. I was tited that night, but proud as a banty rooster, and 1 ain't got over it yet. Folks talks about gettin the ound soldier on the farm, 101 be all right if be gits the right boss, but if he gits 'workin fer some close fisted beggar what 'ud skin a louse fer its hidsa and tale that there sojer Il sound a retreat. And by the same token, I don't believe in cohseriptin labor fer the farm. It 'wouldn't be no good, anyhow. The farmer can't stand over a shotgun all the time. An ounce of Taughin s worth a ton of work done on the farm. "| again. | Sask, is spend : his aunt, Mrs bg OF CANADA ' TORONTO / HEAD OFFICE = Money Orders and Drafts are ; issued by this Bank payable in €ST'D 1873 all parts of the world. PORT PERRY BRANCH H. G. HUTCHESON, Manager. FIRE INSURANCE Stock Insurance, Motor Insurance, Life Insurance Accident Insurance, Plate Glass Insurance HAROLD W. EMMERSON (Office One House North of the Catholic Church) PORT PERRY, ONTARIO Phone 181 234 The nations now are filling Their cup of human blood, To the day when human freedom Shall stand where tyrants stood. 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That Play at Utica Hurrah! The date 1s settled, ior The play you read about--~ 'Tis February twenty-eight. Come, and you'll laugh and shout. Prospect Miss B \ Holliday spent the week end at her home here. Our League spent a social evening with the Raglan League on Thursday last, Don't Forget Sorry to say Miss Vera Somerville ; p Don't forget to MAIL your sub- is suffering with 1a grippe. scription to the W. P. A., Port Perry. Glad to see Miss Mary Sonley back The money is urgently needed. Second Anniversary The Edith Cavell Society celebrated their second anniversary by enjoying 'a soclal evening at the home of Mr E H Purdy on Wednesday. The Patri- "Glad 'to. hear that Mr and 'Mis otic League, realizing the excellent Bums are improving. work done by the young ladies, sent a Mr A Gilroy spent the week end cheque for $25 upon this occasion. with his sister at Little Britain. Mr W H Phillips of Castle Coone, Welcomed Back Sergt. Harry. Abbots arrived in few weeks with town on Wednesday morning, and he Mrs George White had a successful 2 pened yaa a large number of wood-bee one. day last week. { Harry has come back as military A number of our young people had instructor and will be stationed at of Oshawa. : A number of our young people met | at the home of Mrs H Walker and' presented her with a purse on behalf of the Sunday School and League. {Rin Conkstesg ant piving His brother, Ta wil be back in . |a short time. ng