Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-08-22
FOR GOOD FARMING
BANKERs ARE PLANNING TO
RELF ABvAEcEDiENT.
President NJ. n. Malott OF Kansas
Association Tells Of the Ma
tion-wide Movement--Prnc-
tical Ideas Given.


velopment and Education. of Stat
Bankers Associations. which met II
Minneapolis on August 7th and II
\ St. Paul on the sth, was participated
\ in by twenty-three states. and th'
benefits which will accrue to tn,
nation by reason OF this convention
R will be of inestimable value, and be
far reaching in their results.
NJ. H. Malott. president OF the
Citizens bank and president of the
Kansas Bankers association, attend
ed the session and is enthusiastic
in his commentator OF the plans
outlined.
at is not the purpose of the ASSOC
ciation." said he today, Ito attempt
to teach the farmer better method
of farming, but to aid him in pro-
curing needed legislation along lines
that will place from one to three
instructors from the agricultural
schools and colleges in every county
of the state, with demonstration
farms within the reach Of ALL
by demonstration the expert gets
the confidence of the farmer and
the results make him convert to
modern and scientific methods. Co
operation with the agricultural
schools, with the farmers Institutes,
with the railroads with their DEM
onstration trains and giving finan- ,
cial assistance, is the purpose of the
bankers movement in this cause.
There is tremendous RESPONSE
bility resting upon the American
people today, for the preservation
of the soil is the preservation of
future generations. To conserve the
fertility Of the soil, we must restore
to 1t all the elements which we have
taken from it, and only by the chem
lcal analysis of the expert can we
determine whether the element need
I'd is potash, nitrogen or lime-
'In some sections of the country !
he conservation of the soil may be I
by rotation of crops, Il
adapted to the climatic
md soil conditions, and here again
ONES in the benefit of having an
Expert in each individual county.
I'm Georgia, under the direction
i the state agricultural college.
here are ~, 500 boys and girls en-
oiled in Better Farming clubs, and 3
II under 16 years of age. They +
re farming small plats of ground p
nder the guidance of the demon a
traitor and are doing splendid work. A
"One boy, only eleven years old, q
hose father very reluctantly al a,
'wed him to farm one acre under J,
ne direction of an expert. produced ~
bushels of corn, while the father :,
Lrming under the old method pro- Z,
lced only l ! bushels of corn to the
IRE on the balance of the farm. g,
oys' Club in Alabama made an av- -
age of 1873 bushels of corn to the =.
re.
"In North Dakota last year the :,
gislature appropriated 45,0OO.0O =
further farm development and !,
ucation, conditioned that for each =,
200 used in community an equal =,
Mount should be raised where the :.
~. - 9pen'' ~ DauAers AFT
citation of that state, and the banks -
individuals raised almost the en-
g $4,000, so that last year North -,
kto had 100000 for demonstration ~
ms with from one to three in ca,
uctoTs in county, demonstrating
tn as to crops and stock.
Another subject in which the
1kers are interested and which had
'rominent place at the Minneapolis
citing is that of vocational train VIZ
!. The German school system Vt
kes vocational training compul- S ~
y, and Germans lead the world PHI
he preparation of youth for active len
mess occupations. or
Before a boy reaches the ado ~ 81.
ent period he should make p
inning at learning some trade. The = F,
erience Of German schools shows -
boy commencing at an age sa,
n II to is becomes most skilled old
an artisan. Up to a few years
all the high schools OF the F
led States had the same theoreti- THO
course, and it is only recently Anu
manual training and domestic
noe have been given considera- Wet
trou