Quote of the week

Quote of the week:

May 15, 2012: “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

May 8, 2012: "Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land."~ William Pitt

May 1, 2012: "You can make a small fortune in farming - provided you start with a large one."~ Anonymous

Apr 24, 2012:“The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.” - Will Rogers

Apr 17, 2012: "From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs." ~Thomas Jefferson~

Apr 10, 2012:  “Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.” ~Charles Dickens ~

Apr 3, 2012: “Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)~

Mar 27, 2012: "It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn." ~ BC Forbes ~

Mar 20, 2012:  “The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.” ~ Will Rogers ~

Mar 13, 2012: "When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore are the founders of human civilization." ~ Daniel Webster~

Mar 6, 2012: " The Farmer works for the soil, The agriculturist works for the farmer. " ~ Eugene F Ware~

Feb 28,2012: "Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age." ~Alfred Nobel~

Feb 22, 2012: "A farmer traveling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. " ~James Thomas Fields~

Feb 14, 2012: "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. "~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Feb 7, 2012: "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands” ~Thomas Jefferson~

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