Putnam patriot., 1909-09-24
 The New Farming.

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 saeni: the world has been secured byex experts for new and better seeds, ffui
 and other kind. Of useful trees. fine breeds and kinds of animals, &c., msni
 Of which have already proved vaiuabl'
 10 farmers.
 Our present object k not to show the many benefits conferred on the farme
 since Secretary Wilson became heae
 Of the Agricultural Department, but t ] speak Of the service of the Bureau o
 Plant industry through the agency ol the "Fafmers Cooperative Demonstfa ton Work. The working forces now consist Of one director with assistants ten agents. and lss local and district agents. The local agents are practical farmers who have been thoroughly in structed by the State and the district agents.
 The work Is begun in October by call ing public meetingsfin each district to be worked, at which Is pointed out the advantage Of increasing the crop yield two, three, or four fold, and how II may be done.
 II k not difficult to persuade farmers Of The de.irabiIIty Of increased crops, but it k difficult to persuade them 1t can De done Finally, one or more farmers in each district are persuaded to work a lew acres in accordance with fuse as directed.
 The demonstration farmer must do all the work himself. Therein lies the force Of the argument. What he can do his neighbofs will believe they can do. Each month specific instructions are sent to each demonstrating farmer. Each month, too, local agent visits him and gives wefd-of-mouth instfuc- tiops. Notice k sent tos sall the co-ope- rating farmers to meet the agent on il given demonstration fafmi where the crop and plans are exhausliYely dis cussed This k called q "field school .'
 In these discussions It has been found that many small farmers had never fully complied with any of the essen tiaI radimedts of successful farming Year after year they had gone on eharg- Ing their perfectly avoidable failure To the land or the elements.
 One of the converts to the new farm ine--as related in the "DutIook,h from which we get the substance Of this ar- tiele-thus frankly expressed himself at public meeting in Alabama, last year
 Il was born In a eotton-field and worked cotton on my farm Tor more than forty years. thought no one could tell me anything apout raising cotton. [ had usually raised one-hali bale on my ihinssoil, and thought that was all the cotton there wns in it in one season. The demonstration agent came along and wanted me to try his plan on two acres. Not to be contrary l agreed, but 1 did not believe what he told me. However, l tried my best to do as he said, and at the end of the year l had a bale and half to the acre on the two acres worked hts way, and Il little over n third of bale on the land worked my way. You could have knocked me down with feather. This year Il have a bale aud hall to the acre on my whole farm. If you do not believe 1t, invite you to 20 down and see. Yes, sir, as n good cotton planter ] am just one year old.
 No wonder the General Education Board has added to the Government appropriation over sIh,Ooo year toi The extension of such new farming as
 leads to these things.
 Coming from the highest authority In this nation this statement that the farm crops of this country can be in creased from two 10 four fold cannot be called in question, incredible as il may seen to the ordinary iayman. It is for. tilted hy the demonstrations offered by the scientists of the Agricultural De pafltnent, and also those of France, Holland, and other tontinental conn' tries. England, like the United states Is getting awakened to the fact, that in the amount ol agricultural products to the acre 1t k far behind France, and Is employing French agricultural experts to give instruction Ia the native farm CTS in regard to their more successful methods of raising crops; while in this eountr, our own agricultural experts are employed in giving such instrue- tta.. Ia at.f farptsrs as wa untletSt A n ti 1t, without cost to the farmers.
 Connecticut, and ali the other New England States, should combine and organize demonstration farms, under instruction, to prove the efficacy oi the New Farming, which our National Government, through Its Agricultural Department, positively affirm can in crease crops double 10 four fold. Even to increase crop products fifty per een'
 would mean the increase of fafm land
 more than iua rcr cent, give value IL millions of acres ot waste lands, anc lead io the construction of trolley line'
 and eventually Ia the revolaiienikins
 of all material, social and intelieetua 1 interests nj the land.
 N hat erander service could our farm CTS render their State aud thus homo
 thelr National Government, than de I manStrating the truth oI this New Farming Idea, and in the doing Q l, which ii would cost scarcely anything | ----------=s-=.-@--
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