Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.