The Parker post., 1912-05-18
TAKES BRAINS
TO FARM NOW
SCIENTIFIC FARMING is SUREST
AVENUE TO SUCCESS.
Farmer Of Fifty Years Ago Would
Hardly Be Able to Make
a Living Today.

I 1t takes more brains to be a good
farmer than lit does to be a good
teacher, a skillful doctor or
money -making business man BRAHMS
are the best fertilizers, after ALL
Times have changed, and the agri-
cultural schools, the state experiment.
bulletins and the new scientific farm
ing have helped to change them
1t used to be the saying "That
amy fool can farm" but il lit was ever
true at any time lit certainly lis far
wide OF the truth at present.
The brightest boy of the family us
ed to look at farming as a dull bust
hess, and he went away to study
law or medicine and stuff his brain
with Latin and Greek roots. The
brightest boy from the farms OF to-
day finds all he can do in mastering
the principles of farming as it has
grown to be-
H. T. Devore, an authority ON pro
| fitable farming, says that the farmer
has to know a thousand Things and
know them we'll or he will fail He
is a veterinarian, a cultivator, a
skilled breeder of stock, an account
ant, Judge of soils and master OF
innumerable other sides of the oldest
profession i'm the WOrld--that of agri-
culture 1t has come to pass that
biologists, entOmOlogiStS, biologists.
chemists, and half dozen others
never heard of, are now helping ev-
cry farmer who is willing to be help
ed
1t took a long time to do it but
the agricultural schools are begin
! nifg to have d Zig Influence on the
farm and the farmer The man who
follows the pillow is beginning to be
hungry for information and it takes
gray matter, good brains, to use
al, the information that is given to
| him free of charge.
The boy who had the courage to
go to the agricultural school, is being
repaid a hundred fold for the time
and the money that 1T cost. Many
bright boy went home from the
school with his mind full of new
ideas about making farming pay and
found himself up against blank wall
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years to show the old-fashioned far
mer that a world of good cam come
ou' of these schools where trained
men are studying the problems that
have always baffled them and their
| fathers before them. But it takes
brains to get the best there is OUT
Of these sources of information
These men are beginning to under
stand that there are hidden values in
crops that they never have dreamed
of. The students and the widely
circulated bulletins have shown them
that they have been making mistakes
in their feeding and care of the
stock for years The men with the
brains have been the ones who have
realized this and faImed accordingly.
From the hen house to the wood
lot there has been change wher
ever the brains were there to see
the value of the colleges and the
bulletin-taught farming
The old fathers and mothers found
it hard to realize that the school
was able to make better farmer out
of the boy than he would be with
nothing but hard work and exper
ience. Some of them tried to drive
the newer ideas out of his head with
hard work and constant objections.
They did not realize that a new
epoch in farming with brains had
begun The men who have special
lied and used their brains in guid-
ing the plow and sowing the seed
are the ones who have made the
successes. They have used their
knowledge in building up their soil
and in getting the full value out OF
everything they have grown or bred.
The farmer of fifty years ago
would hardly be able to make a liV
ing now Agriculture has become one
of the specialized professions, and
the farmer has to specialize i'm horse
breeding, chicken keeping, crop rota-
tions, seeding, harvesting, insect
| fighting and a thousand other things
that his grandfather never Thought
about bothering with.
The farmer has to know all about
the actual value of manllre, the kind