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AUCTIONS. H. MATSON AND CO. MATSON and VALUE OF STOCK LICKS. WARNING TO STOCKOWNERS. Cheap advice to Btockownerß to prepare their own stock licks evidently has appealed to some stockowners, who have put cheapness before the real value of the scientifically made stock licks. And it seems some of them are now realising that they are no better qualified prepare licks {or their stock than they of dispensing physic for themselves. Stockowners in South Africa are now toeing- warned against the false economy of home-made stock licks, which are "the dearest in the long run." A writer in the "Farmers' Supplement" of the "Sunday Times," printed at Johannesburg, states: — "It is not the cheapest of stock food from a price point of view that is really the best and cheapest in the long run. Moro often than not it ia the most costly that gives the best return, and on examination is found to be the cheapest. Few of our farmers, however, look at things in this light. They are too often guided by the price of a commodity, and too apt to try (heir hand at making up some mixture that they think is quite good enough, when, if nil things are taken into consideration, it will be found to be not only dearer than a more expensive and properly combined product, but worthless for tho purpose for which it is intended." L I X I T. This commodity is pvepar-ed in different forms, suitable for variousrequirements, both ns regards ailments, and the locality of the country. It is being recognised fror Auckland to the Bluff, arid is earn ing recognition, not from newspaper boosting but to the satisfaction of actual users, and it can be acquired from most of the principal Stock Agents in the Trade. NOW IS THE TIME TO GET IT. THE SEASON IS STARTING, AND PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. 11. MATSON and CO. OUR OWN DOORSTEP. "If everyone swept his own doorstep the City would be cloan." There is a fine flavour about this old Chinese proverb. Its wisdom was never more needed than now. There is a craze at the moment for sweeping other people's doorsteps, for getting the Government to sweep all the doorsteps, to appoint Inspectors to see that in the interests of the common weal all doorsteps are swept —by somebody else. It is often forgotten that those activities on other people's doorsteps, the cumbrous interferences by the State, the inspections by men hi uniform, may be the taking over from the individual duties which he ought to perform himself, which he could and should perform better than anyone else. A Government pays a deplorable price for a cleaner City when it renders its citiaens unfit to sweep their own doorsteps. Yet that is the price paid when paternalism and grandmotherliness and interference begin to flourish.

Farmers requiring MANURES, WOOLPACKS, COENSACKS, and ANY COMMODITY ESSENTIAL ON THE FARM, H. MATSON and 00. WILL VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THEIR ORDERS. H. MATSON and CO. Community ■(>* aim there must, be, but it should never kill individuality of effort. All these things apply to men and women. The progress of the State is dependent upon the individual will to progress and the individual will of men and women grows only by exercise, not by compulsion. la this Arm we desire the City to be •' clean but we do not wish anyone to sweep . "our doorstep ior us. i Wet. desire the commerce of this country ■' tahe'tha finest in the world, to be main-^ . Gained everywhere at the highest standards ' «t usefulness to the public, of thoroughness nws and* economy in administration. But our idea ol bringing that about is to attend to o,av business "ourselves, and give it our most ' thinkable method of doing it better. / It" is not our idea to get the Government fa- bring about these desirable results by legislation and inspection, partly because we believe it to .be Impossible, and partly ' -because we do not consider it desirable even if it were possible. The exercise of individual will and courage and enterprise is among the supreme pleasures of life and ■wo -would not forfeit it for all the State emelency. - ' We "hope that the City may be cleaner, but we know that in these respects at least no. one sweeps his doorstep more diligently. , . INSURANCES —Many occupiers of, land sflnd it necessary .to keep their .{am buildings, or' their implements, etc, insured. WHY NOT GIVE THIS - BUSINESS TO H. MATSON and CO. f -'■ .We are- farmers' commission BSleimen, and being a section of the mercantile fraternity, we can . , undertake this with no increased .'. cost to yourself, with the atrong- ; est firms, and at a low rate, H. MATSON and CO.

, tS INSPIRATION COMES. , Two City men met in the street the other - day. Said' one: S'How are you doing in <- these'hard 'times! 1 * The other-replied: "I ; don't seem' to be able to do anything. I • can't get Inspiration." Few days, pass but yon will hear some- " tiling similar!, ' 'l'm not in ' the mood tor. .work to-day," some young fellow will r -' 'announce. 'when ho roaches the office, and ■t forthwith prepares to put in as slack a day si possible.-. ','Tbls Is one of my off days," a young women will-say when some piece ' el careless work is pointed out to her, and think it both'an explanation and an excuse. '.Thto cult-of the .mood, this waiting for ?'inspiration,." appears to be one of the most fashionable- forms of self;indulgence> at the moment. An experience seems to be not worth having unless 'you "get a thrill," t "evt tk kick" out, of it. Work is not ' strenuously undertaken unless yon. "feel j like it." , Most of ■ this talk 1b because of laziness. ' It used to be regarded as Dfe privilege of poets to wait for inspiration, but it always was •' privilege exercised chiefly by minor ; poet*.. The great artists have worked as .- hard and as regularly at their arts as any ; accountant at. big figures' or any carpenter '„ at this, bench. There Is certainly no room for this -talk V in "the industry, tho commerce, the profes- ::- sioi* Of 1930. : SHEEP ;; FQOT ROT "TONICS. Now is the time to get this attended to. All farmers know that a cure one year may not be efficacious the next year. ■ At the present time we are marketing an article , ( that under our own supervision we 'here proved over a period of several years to bo a wonderful tonic, and can be used with very little trouble, either on a. small or big flock, and is largely used by big flock-owners in Australia. j H. MATSQN and CO. Von do not get inspiration by sitting waiting for it. You do not hasten the mood for work by Indulging the mObd of idleness. la our experience, inspiration is rather to be regarded as the reward of work than the preliminary, of it. It is- common among those who - criticise ' and' denounce what they call "modern civilisation" to talk as if tho regularity of organised business were a kind of slavery. They talk of it as the acme of servitude that a man should have to be at his deßk every morning at nine.and not leave it before six But those who have watched life and work with impartial eyes .have found this. regularity to be more often a salvation than a bnrden. There is inspiration in the very regularity of it, .The .rhythm of it penetrates tern perament. Many a man sets out from home perhapa. feeling slack and indifferent and uninspired, but' when he has been a few moments at hi* accustomed place .he feels his .; . Interest quickening, his observation .becoming more acute, his will towards efficiency gathering force, till once again it dominates him through and through and fills liim with the pleasure of effort. Talk about'' moods and inspiration should be kept for a man's hobby, not for his day's work—for, his golf and his bridge, not for his profession. Even then it strikes as savouring more of weakness ' than of f strength. Our view in this firm Is that work is » happy duty—a duty does not wait for ._ • moods-rthst work is essential to health and t -' ■ the Jot of life, and these are the conditions #, «*'lnspiration. */ n . an ■•* abont hj ,» J°b w*th all his :£.-*;:»■■** »nd Inspiration will come sooner, much *h*a he oxpects. „ 30. MATSON and CO.