The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-15
HOW AREY KNEW THINGS
A College Training Enabled Him -
Profit by the Experience Of

Profit by the experience Of
Others
fRion II. Butler in Progressive Far.
mer.l
Arey is g. young chap who has been
70 the A and NJ. College, Saturday
he came over to show me how to
hu;ld a sito. While We sat on tia
lumber pile discussing the feed RAJ
,;,n a razof-back cow am wander.
ing by.
Il would release that COW said
Arey.
mot enough feed capacity r-
piled Arty.
don't need a 60-ton hammer h
pound an laea into my heaU, II
can get the ioea IN proper sh-pt to
penetrate the other way. But that is
ne trouble. So Arey brings me to
the text.
Arey mas been taught the shape Of
COWS by men who know. When he
says the COW has not the cap4cIty, l
STE it. A COW is a machine 10 make
milk. Unless she has room TO hold
the raw material she canno WORK it
I'D. In the course of SO years some
or these things will soak into n man
who is learning by experience, IN
the course of SO seconds they will
soak INTO the same-sized head. II a
that others have been accunluIauns
and systematiZing for centuries,
Ibis is the province Of the schools
and colleges.
Arey is a young chap with his first
whiskers Just about ready TO sprout.
| am dc enough to haze harvested
the crop on top OF my { have
49, o.- "a M YQ m agEH
from the experience OF the available
world
My boy saw the moral of the story,
He is an Interrogation point, and
keeps asking questions Of every b0uy
who will answer. AS a result ne
has stocked away in the junk-roon
of his mind a lot Of miscellaneous and
u~nassor.ed plumber hat Is OF the
highest utility in a way, yer which
is not always available because he
cannot catalogue and systematic it
But the boy didn't let Arey get
away until he found out something
of hat marvellous A.. and M. College,
where people learn things without
having to pay SO everlasting mucA
for the learning.
Take the case of that COW. ia
time I would a w soaked it into my
think factory that the cow was nos
the kind Of machine we need. and
we would have replaced her with d
more improved milk making inlpie~
ment. But in all that time [ would
ave been wasting good feed On her
and getting the minimum of returns
Arey pays tuition and board TO learn
these things on the short circuit. ana
a whole lot more at the same time
When he goes to his own farm some
day he will know h to do and
how to do it. and he will not lie
humping his shins against the mis-
axes that many of IS are making
every day, because we lave not yef
dug out for ourselves the knowledge
that the COLLEGE teacher throws at
the boys in bulk.
The farmer who has a boy VIII IND
1t a good investment to send the boy
TO a training school. Leaving out
the benefit to the boy, the old man
Will get his money back from the in
fo' nation the boy will bring home u
scatter over the farm
suppose Arey goes back 70 his
which probably he will. In that
time he will put that farm on the A
ana M. CoIlege plan Of farming, II
pay back more than the college
costs. He will set a pattern
or other rme in the n%eighAor-
,ney never gave him. He will inocu-
iate the whole neighborhood with in
and modern Ideas
= don't think it would be a Rad
rian tor a community to catch half q
uozen young farmer boys each year
ana SEND them to the A. and NJ. TO
De thoroughly fnoculated with the
oacterlum of know how" and then
urn them loose in the township to
spread the infection.
ne boy is a great Institution He
- gong 70 run this big world in q
= w loTo
"hose hair is turning q picturesque
lrazzie color, like a bunch Of frayed-
'ut rope ends. will presently have to
SIC on the fence and see him turn on
re s1e"" and swing things in q
700 swift for our day. That the
can do his work tn tba hest ad-
.aI'ase, he needs ali the heir that
ne reached. He needs technical
and few fathers can afford
Keep the boy from this chance.