The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-30
SCHOOL FARMS
MR.. SANOY'5 WORK
Fully Explained, So That Any
body Can Readily Take
1t In.
RETTER TIMES FOR FARMERS
l4ow 1t Makes Many Bushels
Grow Where But Few Have
Sprouted.

Three years ago notable meeting
OF educators and publiclsts was held in
the Capitol at Richmond to form some
definite plan for improving our public
schools. The outcome was the Co
operative Education Association. an or
e.snization now known and honured
throughout the State and beyond for
what 1t has done in making our public
school system the chief focus of pop
ular concern and OF official activity.
Without any thought OF abating Its
neal for the schools. but rather with
view to experimenting its work for
general education. the association is
now starting new agency for the en-
rIchment of our rural life.
The definite aim OF this new move
ment IS TO make farming more profit
ahie-to make the tiliing of the soil,
what Of right il should be in a State
endowed with natural advantages like
ourz the most attractive and most
IN.
The main thing needful TO make sure
OF this is that the farmer, like success
ful men in other callings, shall be dill
gent in adhering TO business methods and
in taking advantage of demonstrated facts
of applied science. The marvellous ma
terial progress of modern times is the
WORK OF SLltIlShs anu II lSEIlIiig - " re-
cover and retain even step with other
pursuits, ii, too, must have recourse TO
scientific methods. Science is landing
itself more and more TO the explanation
of the activities of the natural world
and OF the advantage that man may
TAX, of these activities. The nature of
the soil as related to the crop that Will
grow on 1t; the life of the plant as re-
lated TO the amount of grain or forage
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animal as related to the food which II
requires for maintenance and growth; the
life history of injurious insects and the
means OF destroying them-such things as
these science has TO offer TO the man
VINO makes his ;loere on the farm"
II is only O.. QUESTION Of the farmers
knowing how: and this the association
proposes to meet by showing him how
The plans rests upon no undemonstrate'
theory. II Is simply To put into practice
here in Virginia what has been done owe
and over again with urfailing success II
other States where the United States De
partment OF Agriculture and othecagen
cies. through the careful selection of seed
better tluage. the proper use OF fertilizer
and the introduction OF new crops hav
wrought revolution in farm methods an
farm profits.
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average yield OF corn in Nebraska wa
raised in q single year from thirty bushel
an acre TO thirty-seven and half busf
eIs--an Increase of % per cent. Mr.. McIve
Williamson OF Darlington comfy. g.
has In a few years-b brought up the produ'
tyity of WORKOUT highland from ten or II
Teen bushels OF corn an acre to an ave
age of more than eighty bushels
Twenty years ago Acadia, a distri'
,n Southwest Louisiana, was a stool
raising country, yielding the people
scanty living from the cattle that sui
sisted upon She cane-braAes. DR.. S. ]
Knapp. of the United States DEPARTING:
of Agriculture. established some dernol
stration farms there to show that t!
tillage OF the soil could be made profit
ble--e thing the natives did not belle,
possible transformation followed |
which Acadia, from being one OF Il