The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1903-12-31
AaTifulinrf
what tho Germans Saw.

Ex.Goyernof Hoard 81 Wisconsin
has spent considerable part Of life.
time as an educator. For several years
as editor, ia season and out Of season
he has laugh, tina, care and kindness to
cows arc both humane and profitable.
lie has spoken from the platform in
eessau,ly to inspire men with the desire
for higher living, emphasizing the
means which make happier and better
people, As he defined il, long ago,
"Wha, the country needs is not new
breeds OF dairy cattle, bat better
breed Of dairymen.p Though some
times almost despairing, he fails not TO
keep up the good work, and in re.
cent Dairyman we find the following
trenehant lecture on our agricultural
methods:
"The constant effort on the part of
Hoard's Dairyman to stimulate the habI
il Of more and better reading, more
careful observation and study, by the
dairy farmer. brings us a very interest
ing amour, Of correspondence. With
all our conceit and boosted progress as
a nation, we are very far yet from
handling onr farming operations as IN
diligently as we should. 1t will be re-
membered that large body OF the
leading agriculturists of Germany WIS.,
tied the United States last summer and
made close study of our farms and
our farmers. They spent a half day,
nearly, at the Hoard's Dairyman farm,
and we were very much impressed by
the remarks Of one of the leading men
Of that company. He said privately to
us:
You have wonderful country in
extent and natural fertility, but | can
see that your farmers are not making
half the profit they should make, nor
that they would make if they were
better educated in their business, and
besides that, because they are not as
well educated as they should be, they
are rapidly destroying the fertility of
their farms.
That was the judgment of one of the
best posted and most successful farmers
in Germany. Is it truei
In the opinion of the Dairyman it is
one of the truest statements ever utter
ed concerning the American farmer.
There are three main points in that
/. The seriour lack of practical
farm education. This keen student of
men and farming could see all that at
a glance, as he looked into the loose,
slip-shod methods employed on Amer
lean farms. The evidence of lack Of
real serious study and cultivation of
the mind, on the part of our farmers,
was apparent everywhere. He saw
that there was altogether too few far
mers who believed in brain farming as
well as hand farming. He could easily
see that in the small number of farmers
sons who attended our agricultural
schools in the almost total lack of the
of the elements of agriculture
IN our common schools; and finally in
he too few books and papers relating
% agriculture which are read by our
armers.
2. The small profits obtained from
he American farm in comparison with
what they should be, and would be i'll
he farmer had desire for wider and
better education in this thing we call
arming. He was astonished that SO
many Of our farmers were so contented
o drag along year after year with poor
vasteful methods and such starvation
esults. He could see what they do
lot see, that net profit in farming
ONES from good thinking, good man
cement based on discriminating intel
gence, and not on mere hard work.
He could see what so many do not 9
ee, that to acquire this needed educa .
on and intelligence farmer must
-ain his mind in habits of reading and
ludy just the same as men in other pro
,ssions have to do.
8. The waste Of fertility. This is Q
lie great, damning sin that must be 8
lid at the door of the American far
Ter in his destructive march across
lie continent from the Atlantic to the :
acific. All the way from New Eng-
md to California can be seen the re-
lit of this brainlcss, stupid DEALING
18th the original fertility Of the finest
,untry the sun ever shone on.
Try furnishing your hired man
home TO live in. garden
ot and pasture for cow and dol
T day for every working day in the
ar. BY so doing you can get good
an and keep him. and he will take
c place OF the Iiarum scarum galoot
ho makes you keep horse for him,
hom you have to board and who is
ming after the Girls fur NIGHTS in