Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-26

feeding operations. If you must grow
1t, sell to the man in town. Corn, oats
and clover hay, with little bran and
oil meal, constitute an ideal ration for
fattening horses.
Market for Mncaroni Wheat.
When In the '70s Russian settlers in
western Kansas had introduced the So
called turkey hard winter wheat it
was found to be good producer, but
there seemed to be no market for 1t.
Gradually the millers adapted their
machinery to its use and found it ex-
cellent. This experience is repeated in
the case of the more recently introduced
durum or macaroni wheat, which Is
better adapted to dry climate than
any other wheat yet introduced. Farm
ers have been anxious about the market,
but an investigation recently made by
prof w. H. DIN, agronomist of the
Colorado Agricultural College shows
that there need be no further mlsgiv-
ings about selling this wheat. Prof.
Olin his replies. from Kansas City.
Omaha, ST. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago
and Minneapolis which show ready
markets in all these places for durum
wheat. The export demand Is strong,
but the time should soon come when
American manufacturers of macaroni
will purchase and use the American
product of this wheat at least to the
extent of supplying the American de-
mand for observation-disclosures Farmer.
Farming Is Changing as a Great
Industry.
There Is not in America any man
who is more familiar with agriculture
MS business than Professor Z. III.
Bailey, who, for years, has been ut the
head of the Cornell Agricultural Col
lege, and has contributed much to the
farmers sum of farm knowledge. Writ
ing in the Century, Professor Bailey
says:
The character of farming is chang
ing rapidly. 1t is coming more and
more to be an efficient, profitable and
attractive business. With here and
there an exception, in the past we have
not given much consecutive thought to
the business-nothing like us much as
the merchant gives to his business or
the doctor to his. 1t has been SO
easy business that unframed men
could succeed in it The change in
economic and social conditions is
breaking up the tradition. Farming
is becoming more difficult, and the old
methods must go. In the future only
the well-infcrmed and fiicient-thinklng
man can succeed; that is, only the edu-
Gated man.
The country is to offer other advan-
tages to the educated man than merely
to be good farmer. There are good
opportunities for leadership on public
questions-probably better opportunity
and with less competition than in the
great cities. The very fact that city
representation is increasing III the leg
islatures should make the able country
representative more of marked man.
The growth of the institute movement,
of the grange and other rural organl-
AullOASs ssINSs AASSh olpOhtuhil W uSS
velop leadership of high order.
1t seems to me that by the very ma
ture of the progress we are making,
the college man must go to the farm.
In fact college men have been going
back from the beginning of the agricul-
tural education movement. Statistics
show that very large percentage
actually have returned to farming and
this in spite of the fact that cities have
been growing with marvellous rapidity,
and that the whole system of agricul-
tural colleges and experiment stations
has been developing and calling for
men. Considering the limitations I'M
der which the agricultural colleges
have developed, without sympathy.
with the Indifference and sometimes
the opposition of charlottesville very
men who should have known better
with wholly inadequate funds, it is
little less than marvellous what they
have accomplished within generatic-.
1t is probable that the proportion of
students of the leading agricultural COL
leges who now engage in agricultural
pursuits is greater than that of stu.
dents of colleges of law or of other pro-
fessional colleges who follow their chos-
en- profession No one now questions
the value of education to a lawyer or
physician; why question its value to
farmer? The educated man will 90
back co the farm II he is fitted to be a
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