The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-08-16
FORBETTERFA FARMING
FARM SCHOOL TEACHERS TELL
BANKERS VALUE OF SciEN-
TIFIC TRAINING.
YIELDS ARE INCREASED.
As Result Of Applied knowledge
Many Noted Speakers to Ad-
dress Convention at Final
Session in ST. Paul.

Minneapolis, - DR.. Andrew NJ. Soule
who is president of the Georgia
college of agriculture, caused the bank
ers and educators assembled at the
conference of committees on agricul-
tural development and education at
the Hotel Radisoon to look up when
he told them with the aid of fertilizers
three bales of cotton, of 500 pounds
each had been raised in Georgia where
the average, without fertilization, had
been 176 pounds, thereby causing
profit Of 500 to the acre.
DR.. Soule spoke on Agriculture in
the South" He explained that he was
not sufficiently familiar with soil and
local conditions in the Northwest to
state what the application of fertil-
iZers might do in Minnesota, but he
ventured the opinion that scientific APP
plications or fertilizers would be as
profitable here as they had been in
Georgia. AS a result of improve
farming methods, DR.. Soule stated that
100000 bales of cotton were produc-
ed in Georgia last year, this aggregate
being 100000 bales more than the
average of previous years.
Dean Woods of the Minnesota agri-
cultural college tackled the labor prob
lem in an address on THE Co-opera-
ton Between the State and the United
States Government in Agricultural EX-
tension Work"
THE unscientific unbusinesslike,
and unskilled must and do constantly
give place to the scientific, business
like, skilled workman" said Dean
Woods. THE great problem before us
now in agriculture is the production of
these skilled workmen. In agriculture
this does not simply mean skilled oper-
atives or factory hands. 1t means men
and women trained in home making,
agriculture, rural life affairs, business
methods and broad citizenship. This
requires the cooperation of many
agencies. The work involves research
investigation, experimentation, demon
stration and education. We have
guessed at conditions long enough. We
must now make an inventory of the
exact conditions existing in each local
ity and as far as possible on each
farm. Soil agricultural and social sur
veys must be made. The information
gathered must be analysed and put in
to shape for general USE
Mr.. Woods advocated the study OF
rural health conditions, activity in
stamping out epidemics of live stock,
and in general, the spread of the ex-
tension method of educating the til
Iers of the soil.
Other speakers at the afternoon ses-
sion were Professor Raymond Riordan,
superintendent of the Interlaken
school, Rolling Prairie, Ind, Dean E. d.
Sanderson of the college of agriculture
of West Virginia; John T. Burns, Sec
rotary of the Information Dry Farm
ing congress, Lethbridge, Alta, and
Professor l.. D. Harvey of the Stout in
stitute, Menominee, Wis.
Efficiency, more practical methods of
farming, and return to the days of
the Mulberry tree" formed the slo-
gan of the convention. President
Joseph Chapman, Jr., referred to the
conference as the most democratic
organization in the United States"
1T has no constitution" he said, mo
bylaws, no treasury and nothing to be
afraid Of"
Round the Mulberry Tree" used
to be the popular song when many of
us were children" continued Mr.. Chap
man. Its first verse was supposed to
represent Misunderstanding day. Then
for Tuesday there were the words:
This is the day we iron our Clothes
The third verse represented baking
day, and so on for the other days of
the week. Now all this is changed
and instead, the laundry man comes on
Monday, the dry cleaner comes the
next day, the baker in his turn and
so on. We are too busy keeping up
with Misunderstanding to the we'll
known novel by Irving Bachelor.