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Facts For Farmers

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
March
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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If )'ou invest luotiey in tools, and then leave thern exposé.) te the weather, jt is the same as Joaning inoney !o a Hpundthrift without seourity - u dead lost in bolh i'ases Ifyou in vost rnoney in books, and pever reud them, it is the same thing ,;s putting your money into a bank, luit nevor drawing either principal r interest. Ifyou iuvest your money in ohoice frfait trees, and do not guaid and give tiiein a chance to grow and pi ovo their value, it is ihe same as putting a good hand into the field with pitor tools to work with. Ifyou invest your money n a good farm, and do riot cultívate it well, it is the same as marrying a good wiíe and so iibiising and enclaving her as to cnish energies and break her heart. Ifyou invest money in a fine bouse, and d trnt .so culiivato your mind and aste as to adorn it with intelligenee iind refinement, it is as if you vvere to wear broadclolh and a ai Ik hat to iiiül. Ir you invest yóu'r rriouey in fine elothes, and do not wear them with dignity uncí ease, it is as f a plqwman wwe to sit a a jeweter's table to malie and üdjust a hairrspring. I f ycu invest your njonoy in strong drink, it is the samo as lurning hungry hocrs into a growiug cofofield - rufu will tol lo w in 'ooth c-iso.s. If yiiu invest yonr money in every new wondur that fluming circuláis proclairii, it is the Bame as buying tickets at t lottnry office, where thare are ten jjlankfi to one prize. lí' yon invHSt your money in tho " lust novel," k is tho same as employiníf a ta;lnr's dandy to dig potatoes.

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Old News
Michigan Argus