Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-01-19
FARMERS INSTITUTE
N MEXICO ON
JANUARY 80

Monday. Jan. 80. is the week .th'
Farmers Institute win start In Au
DRAIN county, with the first meetiu,
on the 18th. at the MCMILLAN High
School In Mexico,
The institute win last throughou
the day and every arrangement vii
be made to handle the crowd expect
ed. Every farmer and citizen n
Audrain is invited.
Tuesday. the Institute wdM be Al
Laddonda. Wednesday. In yandalia
Thursday. Martinsburg, and Friday
in centralia, 20 those In the weg
end Of the county may attend.
Those who WIN likely be on the
program of the Institute are: S. M
Jordan. who will speak on corn and
soil; e. A. Trowbridge on stock;
F. H. Damaree. on wheat and oats
and Mr.. Quisenberry. on poultry.
More details concerning the insti
tute viii be announced later. The
following letter from Mr.. Jordan con
cerning institutes will be of interest
Dear Mr.. White:
! note the interest you pee ,e are
taking in the matter of booe Ing for
better farming.
l find men in town and out of
town are intensely Interested as the
time has come when we jlst must
get better results.
Not long since a man said to me
that IL l would give him the seas
on, he would raise the crop all
right. That fact is in 70 way dis
uted. but any old way win raise a
crop on good soil on agood eason.
The poorest excuse of a farmer in
the whole country can do that. The
big question is how to raise a crop
when the season is against us as
1t most always is, more or less. In
your county last year there were men
who grew twice the county average
with identically the same season as
the man who grew half the county
average. There are reas-
sons for all &issse Siifferenees that
we find. The one knows what to do
under bad conditions and the other
one does not know.
Why is 1t that one man In your
county knows enough to grow twice
the county average and another does
not know enough to grow half the
county average?
1t Is salbe TO say that the for.
mer knows how TO keep his soil fer
tile and he is doing 1t. but the 9th
er one is not keeping up the fertility
d his soil because he does not
know how TO do 1t?
These are things that we discuss
at these farmers meetings and we
get the exchange of ideas that al
ways help out
Certainly the man who Is growing
twice the county average comes to
these institutes and the man who is
growing half the county average or
less does not come to the institute.
Nine times out of ten the man who
makes fun of scientific agriculture Is
. man who Is a renter and always
will be or he is in debt for his
farm and always win be. The man
who to-day makes fun or speaks
lightly OF these things is the man
who does not know how little he
knows. He is commonly the man
who never reads a farm paper or
one that is reliable. and In many
cases does not even read his county
paper. If he takes an agricultural
paper at all, 1t is an unreliable sheet
that should not find an entry to
any farm home He takes 1t be-
cause he gets it cheaply.
If all he reads be some of the
farmers papers that are found in
the country and believes all they say,
then it is no wonder he laughs at
.he book farmer.
Joe Wing said the first farmers
Institute that was ever held was
where two farmers leaned over the
'ence and talked to each other and
hey both learned something.
That lis the idea of
-he institute exactly. 1t
S where we come to tell of the
successes and failure that we are
on the farm, If yop are
succeeding on the farm and win
ell your neighbor how you do 1t,
you are doing yourself no harm and
{ may be the means Of so helping
lim over some rough spot that 1t
win enable him to pay the mortgage,
while he otherwise might lose his
home because a payment failed.
Come to these institutes and tell
IS OF your success or your failure an
It will help us all
Are Jou growing twice the county
lverage. or half Of it? Are you
your land better instead of
poorer by your methods? If you are
not do you not think you are farm
ng wrong? If you don't know how to
10 that come out to the institute and
we can tell you. We can tell you
now to make your land better and
i will make you money while you
are doing it.
Are You feeding 40 cent corn to
5our hogs and realizing about so
cents a bushel for your corn? If yo
are not and would like to know how
come out 70 the institute and let us
ak NJ over.
Are your dairy COWS paying a good
nyestme Mt on the money they cost
You? Do you know how to find out?
L not, come out to the Institute and
some neighbor can tell you.
II you don't know anything and
icnt' want to know, stay at home.
You cannot help those present and
only take up needed space If ignor-
ance is blies. don't come.
Very truly yours,
s. M. JORDAN.
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