Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-26
COUNTY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE DATA
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Owing to the prevalence of the Hoof and Mouth disease all extension men both from the Department of Agri- culture and from the state college have been ordered to stop work in the field until further notice. This disease Is so contagious that 1t is deemed unwise to let these men go amongst the farmers as they might carry the same if any cases were de- veloped.
 This means that the work of or ganizing a COW testing association must necessarily be deferred some little time. Mir. Fergus from the Dairy di- vision of the Bureau of Animal Indus try. Washington, has been called to Hartford where he is inspecting for the disease in the herds in and around that city. AS soon as this trouble is over efforts will be made to sign up the few more farmers needed to start operations with the COW testing. It is hoped that this will be about the first of the year.
 Science and the Farmer.
 Hoard's dairyman gives the follow ing editorial about scientific farming which perhaps explains the predujice against what they farmers believe 1t to be.
 Many farmers have an erroneous idea and Judgment concerning science and scientific agriculture. Somehow they have acquired the notion that to
 be scientific is to be theoretical, and
 not practical whereas the exact oppo- site Is the case. The scientific man
 constantly limits his belief and his ! action to proved facts; to laws and principles that govern facts. Moth ing is true to him until it is proved true. He has no room for traditions or notions handed down from father to ] son. He refuses to be governed by such consideration. What do the facts of fa rTninp faaPh2 If ia hiG a Y1t
 study. He has learned to be a broad | man, considerate of what others, as | well as himself, know. He realizes the danger of being narrow and shutting | his judgment and action up to con- l clusions drawn from such a mental | condition.
 The scientific man always looks up- l on the farm and it's problems as be- | ing vastly bigger than he is: the un- l scientific man always considers him. self to be bigger than the farm. By scientific we do not mean being simply | book learned. That is but a part of l the real thing. The man with books | or without them, who knows a fact
 and all it means, and all 1t requires, is ! truly scientific as far as he goes. But the trouble with the farmer is | that the foundations of his knowledge ! and judgment are too much confined ] to the little he does know, rather than : to all the knowledge of the facts that he might know. To that extent Is l he unscient;fc, unequal to the task
 that is before him. Out of that state
 of mind comes the prejudice he feels
 towards science agriculture. AS long as that prejudice exists it is a veil be- { tween him and the truth.
 i Farm Bureau Movement Growing Notice has recently appeared in the | Massachusetts papers of three new | Improvement Leagues starting. The movement is growing in all states 1 Also one banking concern in another
 part of Massachusetts Is about tC ' start a bureau on it's own responsi- 1 biIity and to stand the whole cost. Il | one concern can see it's way clear tc | finance this whole work it surely ought ] to be worth the same to the various
 business represented in the rest oi | our counties.