The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-06
THE BOOK FARMER.

Last week we printed an article t.
the effect that poultry raising was al
industry worth while in Putnam Coun
ty, and cited the fact that as fin
birds as any in the whole countr,
could be grown here; that the exhibi
at the county fair in December at Pa
latka was proof of the statement W.
also quoted a paragraph from an ad
dress by President Hadley of YAH
University that it was good thing
to read books.
There is more or less prejudice
against "book farmers" President
Hadley says that what man learn:
from experience is good as far as II
goes, but the man who finds knowl'
edge from books has access to the
accumulated experience of the whole
world, and can choose therefrom what
best serves his purpose.
In this connection we wish to add
confederation from The Florida Grow
er:
The educated farmer is the sue
cessful farmer, yet old time farm
ers in every state in the Union are
ant to sheer at the book farmer
The most successful citrus fruit
growers of California are men who
made success in other lines OF
business, but who sought a new
and untried business for the fasci-
nation of it, and for the opportuni-
ty it afforded to live in mild eli
mate. The same thing is true in
Florida, and the shining light
among our growers are those who
had no previous experience, were
not brought up in an orange grove.
These men must necessarily be
book farmers; they study and they
experiment, profiting by the re-
suits. Their names would fill a
page, while a list of the really
successful, high grade growers who
were born in an orange grove wonia
rot be long one. Surely this Is
encouragement for those who con-
template coming to Florida. The
same may be said of truckers and
vegetable growers also. The lead
ers are men who brought with
them the brains that made them
successful in other lines of bust
ness; an energy that would not al
low them to farm from fence rail
or high back chair, and who stud
led. The book farmer is every
where the leader"
The good farmer today reads news.
papers, his home ones, and agricultur.
al publications, and there are many
good ones, and in most of them, each
issue has information worth more, il
made use of, than the cost for the
whole year.
In the article last week We called
attention to the valuable information
sent free by the Florida Experiment
Station at Gainesville and gave list
of bulletins on poultry topics sent
free by the U. S. Agricultural De.
partment at Washington.
Florida is getting into line as g
corn growing state. The Putnam
County fair in December had a splen-
did exhibit of corn. The Boys Corr
Club was represented, one boy show,
ing samples from a crop of 81 bush.
els produced on single acre. These
samples are now on exhibition at the
Board of Trade rooms.
The boys and their fathers can gel
publications free from the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture at Washing.
ton, on this subject. Address the
Secretary and call for any of the fol
lowing farmers bulletins:
No. 199-Corn Growing.
No. 229-Production of Good Seet
Corn.
No. 253-Germination of Seec
Corn.
No. 272-Successful Seed Corn anc
Hog Farm.
No. 293-Food Value of Corn Prod,
ucts.
No. 3O3-Corn Harvesting Machin.
cry.
No. 313-Harvesting and Storing
Corn.
No. 4O9-School Lessons on Corn
Zine publication; contains a full bib.
biography of books and bulletins or
corn topics.)