Don't Underrate Your Opponent

Hello Folks! — A man makes his biggest mistake when he thinks he is more shrewd than the man he is dealing with.

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O. J. Arlein of the Farm Bureau Service Co. tells a story about his little boy. He wanted to play a game, his father being very busy as the moment, and seeing a picture of the world in a magazine decided to teach his son while he was also playing. He cut the map in pieces and then asked the son to put them back together again.

In a short while the boy was back with the puzzle all together. Asked father, "How did you do it so fast". "That was easy father". beamed the boy. "There was a pictures of a farmer on the other side of the world; I just put him together and the world turned out right".

There is a lot of parallel in this incident with the real life. We have at times heard the saying "As the farmer goes so goes the world." Today the farmer is the largest segment of our economy that really knows what is to be free to do as he pleases.

The enemies of freedom know that as long as farmers remain free to plow, plant, plan and progress as he wishes they cannot slam the gates of enslavement on us. That is the biggest reason why there is so much commotion over the farmer's plight. True, the farmers are having a tough time of it, but it is that way in any business. We are in tough competition with each other and it isn't going to get much better; the politician not withstanding.

Some politicians cry "crocodile tears" for the farmer in order to get votes and then there are others ... cians who cry the same kind of tears in other to drum up support to put the farmer in subjugation to the dictates of big government. Both kinds are dangerous; the one without realizing it is heading the nation toward the brink of disaster and the other by deliberate methods is doing the same.

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Ma, "she shocks me every time I see her." Pa, "She should, every, stitch on her is charged."

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One of the biggest gains to be made by farmers in the next few years is "quality control". It is coming just as sure as anything and it is to the best interest of everyone.

Milk and eggs are the two most perishable crops we have. There is hardly anything as good as a good fresh egg nor as bad as a bad one. The same goes for milk.

Last summer a family moved into our neighborhood; they asked to buy eggs from us. At first they bought only 2 or 3 dozen a week but soon they were buying 7 or 8 dozen per week. We wondered about it and the reason they gave was that they had taken a liking to eggs that were fresh. We visited them one evening and the children were frying eggs galore. Which just goes to show what quality in a product can do.

If such a change can come in eating habits of a family around here where it is comparatively easy to get fresh products what won't it do to the people in large cities?

Quality is also one of the limiting factors in our export markets that need attention. I think that in the production of eggs, as in milk, quick cooling and general quality control is going to pay off...