Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-05-06

%PSA0AA1sS AE0S& ln0s 5IulHuL06 Ol Iu6lT meet
tngs, but our offer was turned down.
Our advice to the members Of the So
clety 10 to work In harmony with the
county agent movement and the farm
sta1 pe are too
sive to be side-tracked. The Society
should also try to come to better UNI
derstanding with our business men. It
would be q good business proposition
TOT poth. In other words. let us get
"Ehs County Agent" -: =.
To the Editor Of, the Swift County
Monitor: H.. ~ -&s+
AS there is a good deal being, said as
to whether or not counties should em-
ploy county agents. also whether Farm
ers' Clubs are q good thing, it might be
in order to have both sides of the ques-
ton from the farmers themselves.
Some people seem to think it would
be better to quit having q county agent
because since the county agent has been
large that there is no market for them.
It Is merely q compliment to the abil-
ity and industry Of any county agent
to intimate that his efforts have had
section of the country should farm
on that plan they would soon fall be-
hind in the race for all good farmers
the age and are going forward and
better things: Ali the crops Of any one
county or or all the counties in one state
the price so that the crops in Swift
county would have to be mighty small
indeed to raise the price very much.
There are two classes Of people to
whom whom the county agent will not be Of
knows SO much you can't tell him any
thing, and the other is the man who
doesn't know and doesn't want to know.
lookout for something better. To such
man the hints and suggestions and
experiments of the county agent are
most welcome. There are a good many
THINGS 1aa,I perhaps 4nst ne has not had chance
proud to be told.
For the first class there is no hope,
for the second man there may be in
asmuch as "A continual dropping will
everastnsly ne at S' S% the e agent y neeR %ag
pound something into his Uranium that
will have some effect. The first belongs
to the class Of men who say II have
can't tell me anything about farmtns.'
It hurts him to think that "some young
upstart Of county agent" can go thru
the country in his automobile and mot
farmers and be entertained by them
and draw big salary while he, even
after farming for forty years has to
work early and late to make a living.
all whether he is a farmer or just a
miner. He has been, constantly, year
after year, taking the good from the
who W years aga asek could raiae
twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre
on his farm and can now only raise
twelve bushels cannot rightfully be
But the young man who has the ability
to go thru the country and show the
man his mistakes and show him how
he can change his methods and put his
whether his salary is $500 or 5000 a
year, is a public benefactor and can
rightfully be called a farmer.
OF course, there never was reform
of any kind that did not have its op-
ponents, but reforms do come and woe
to the man or group of men who do not
fall in line and help carry the good
| work on. Our fathers did not realize
that the fertile soil of this United
good many places they found to their
sorrow hat they could not keep taking
from their land without any return and
| the wise man began to study and work
| farms in Illinois, that twenty-five years
ago would not produce over thirty
bushels of corn per acre that are now
i producing S1AIy-uVe 10 SeVenLy-uVe anC
| are getting better ali the time.
The time may come when a county
agent will not be needed in Swift and
| adjoining counties, but it will not be
until he can see a silO on every farm
more and better stock on every farm
| farms. fenced SO that the poor COW neeG
| notsbe fconfned to the poor pasture an6
| the straw stack, but at times may roam
| all over the farm and get a vast amount
/ of feed that ia wasted
| and the hogs and sheep may run ovel
| the stubble fields and get the grai1
that is now also wasted; and the ponds
and sloughs in our fields are drained
ing clover or alfalfa and the finest
| lands in the world; these wild grass
meadows are titled out and producing
crops worthy of them instead Of {
small crop Of inferior hay.
| And now as to the Farmers Club:
| they can be and are a benefit If they
cause people to take more interest IL
things in their community that are Of
tally or intellectually. Even should there
not be any financial benefit from thu
club it may stimulate some man Of
woman, boy or girl to make an effor1
dream they possessed. The old literary
society long ago in the school house
every two weeks on Saturday nights
helped many an embryo lawyer OF
/ VI " uuO WILL III
| was cut out for.
The man who will go to the club with
an honest desire to be q benefit to hi
neighbor will listen to his own or hi!
| neighbours child -recite Twinkle, Twin
kle Little STAR" or Mary Had a Little
Lamb and not criticize but encourag,
| them to put forth efforts that will hell
| them to fill the place in this worl(
God meant them to fill.
| e. S. MCCLELLAN.
! Town Of Benson