The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-01-14
WHAT SCIENTIFIC FARMING is NOW DOING
Is Prospecting Who Engage in It, and Will Prove the
Force to Boys from Stores and Offices Back to
the Fields. What Improved Methods Will Do.
NJ. b. Sans in Walton Tribune,

VI. Ii. Sans IN
Much is said these days in favor of
scientific farming, and no intelligent
or thoughtful person can doubt, in the
face of present agricultural advances,
the value of such movement. | heard
a farmer say the other day, somewhat
in this connection, that there never
was better time to make money than
today. But some one asks, how can
that be when the farmer gets so much
less for his farm products than he
used 70. Yes, but improved methods
enable him to produce so much more
to the acre at less expenditure of
money and energy.
Increased production at decreased
expenditure, relatively speaking, is
not the only good result of scientific
farming, or in other words it is no
more a question of making money
than it is of making intelligent farm
ere, and Identifying that most useful
and honorable of all human industries.
Scientific farming is Just another
phrase for intelligence in the business
of agriculture, and intelligence in any
trade or occupation is not only bless
ing to the occupation, but TO him who
possesses it as we'll. The educated la.
borer has the advantage of his less
fortunate brother, it matters not how
simple the work engaged in. He is
able to get ideas which enable him to
take advantage of his work, and, then,
too, he turns out better product.
The state realizes all of this and es-
tablishes archaeological and agricul-
tural schools. but these are inadequate
to the needs of the country at large,
since only few can attend, and in the
case of agriculture few of those who
do attend go back to the farm and
make it business.
How thea are the needs to be met
aud additional impetus added to this
new movement Ia behalf of agricul-
ture?
1t is alright to send out bulletins OF
information, aud with editorials for
the benefit of those already employed
in this industry, but that would be nc
more than we have been doing for the
past twenty We or thirty years. Our
public schools seem to afford al ade-
quate starting point or perhaps the
plan suggested by our governor, to
the effect that each senatorial district
have an agricultural school, would be
good beginning and answer the
needs admirably.
Agriculture has been deprived OF
much good talent, and our educational
system is greatly to blame. We edu-
cate men with a view to law, medicine
ministry, etc., but scarcely 80 much as
hint towards agriculture; and the
training given oy our common schools
directs IOWdEO OIL
sooner than farming.
When a Young man leaves the farm
and goes off to college he seldom re-
turns to the scene of his boyhood days
to make that the stage of his future
activity; and even his old father and
mother have high hopes OF their son
becoming a statesman or some big
lawyer and wear pigeon winged coat
tail, instead of wishing him to return
to the peaceful life of the farm where
he must Labor, to be sure. but net near
so clavishly or less iutelligently as
many who follow numerous other pur-
suits of life. OF course man must
like it or take an interest in it, at least
as he must with any pursuit to make a
success of it. The farm does not need
those who are hunting an easy job; no
toll is easy except for him who enjoys
it. The thing to be corrected is the
mistaken idea that the business of ag-