The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND GAZETTE
When You Go to the Farmers Institute

ing learned anything. These men evidently ware
very unfortunate in the institute they attended
or else they are men who do not learn things very
readily.
We do not say this with any desire to reaec,
upon them, either; because We recognize the fact
that the spirit a takes with him decides. n
a great extent whether not he will profit nv
what he hears. at farmers institute or elsa
where. The man who goes TO earn-to get new
facts and ideas that will be helpful to him in
his works pretty sure to find ont something Of
value; the man who goes to crit,eise the speakers
or to find out how much they do not know that he
does. is likely to come away with his conviction
that he knows more than all them scientific fell
lers' very much strengthened
We do not believe. however. that many Progress
sive Farmer and Gazette readers belong to this
class We are pretty sure that our folks are going
to the institutes to learn things TO acquire knowl
edge that viii enable them to do better work
when they get home. ana that they are then CON-
ing back home 10 put these things into practice
That's the kind OF folks The Progressive and Ga
zetie Family is mostly made up Of: and that's
In what they are going to do in the mex, ten years
out where they are not doing as well as they
could and then tell them about IT, When they
see that another way ia better than the one they've
been going they are just as quick as anybody TO
get into the better way.
Because they are such really progressive farm
ers we scarcely think IT necessary TO urge them
10 go TO the farmers Institutes or to take their
wives and daughters II there is a woman's insti-
tute Other folks may think they can AFFORD to
stay away from the Institutes and 20 fishing or
talk politics. but our folks know better Why
women went Ave and ten and fifteen miles las,
year to hear Mrs. Stevens and Mrs HUT and Mrs
Hollowell talk in the North Carolina women's In
stitutes And they said 1t paid them. too So
OF course. our readers won't stay away-nor 10,
their neighbors stay away. IL they can be per-
suaded to 70.
But having gone. of course you wan, TO GO, the
most out OF your days attendance and to do this
there are needed. in addition to an open mind
open ears and an "openabie" mouth. when you
go to the institute. II there is any matter about
which you specially wish Information. ask the
speakers about 1t. That's what they are there
Tor, to tell you II they can't tell you dom, con-
ciude that they are ignoramuses-you don't know
either reinember.-but ask them to find out for
you' and II they are the right sort they'll do IT,
one more thing II any of the speakers-,here
are few OF that kind left yet-begin TO make
little set speeches about something OF no vital
concern TO you or your neighbors take matters
INTO your own hands little. and by judicious
questioning draw them down to something prac-
''cai. The best institute speakers are either men
VINO nave made thorough and earnest study OF
'oiie one subject or good practical farmers, and
eener OF these classes will be only too glad TO get