Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-08
FARM EXPERTS PUSHED EUROPE AHEAD AGR|CULT uRAllY
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and agricultural organization in ELL
rope, page 500.
In Hungary the same system is in
force, the department maintaining
stock and crop farms, nurseries and
vineyards to furnish pure stock, seed
and saplings to the farmers, and
several of the experts are sent abroad
each year to Germany and other for
eign countries for special training.
,Rural credit, ETC., pages 1860.
In Austria particular attention is
given to farm bookkeeping, each
farmer being required to fill out
each week a simple blank, from
which the expert furnishes him a
balance sheet showing the income
from and cost of production of each
product, the gross and net profits,
and with it valuable advice showing
whether or not any branch is profit
able, where he is spending too much
or too little, how and where meth
DDS may be improved. Thus the ex-
pert acts as skilled manager whose
salary would be many times what a
small farmer could afford to pay, but
who is at his service. These experts
work in every province and are avail
able for every farmer. (Rural cred
it, etc.. pages 1922.
In Switzerland, and even in Rus
STA, we find the agricultural experts
at work. In the little country of
Belgium, the most densely populated
country in the world, with an area
less than one-sixth that of this state,
there are 27 travelling experts going
from one farm to another, advising
and instructing in agriculture. horti-
culture, agronomy, market garden
ing, poultry breeding, tree cultiva-
ton, and giving to the farmers
wives and daughters the best thought
of the educators of the world on do
nestle science and farm home life.
(Rural credit, page POD.
In Holland, P. Won Koch, director
of agriculture, in an address to the
said: twenty-five years
ago agriculture was in backward
and low state, our farmers were
beaten at our own exhibition by for
eign competition" Today we point
to the wonderful results of intensive
farming in Holland. How was this.
achieved in SO brief a period? BY
sending travelling agricultural ex-
perts all over the rural districts,
into the heads of the
farmers the necessity of right farm
ing, of right methods in agriculture,
horticulture, dairying, stock breed
ing, establishing experimental and
demonstration stations, analysing
soils, preaching the doctrine of CO.
operation (Rural credit, page 200.
Today, in face of natural difficulties
and much poor soil, the farmers are
their annual product
amounting to $25O,O0O, 900.
In Denmark, scientific agricultural
education and cooperation are uni
This little kingdom, quar-
ter the size of this state, with poor
soil and worse climate, feeds its peo-
pie and exports every year 100000
900 OF butter, $33,000,000 of bacon
and $8,000,000 of eggs. Better than
any country Denmark offers most
impressive demonstration of the tre-
mendous value and absolute neces-
sity of universal scientific education
in farm processes among the country
people and the revolution accom-
plished by cooperation in production
and distribution. The Danish farmer
does not think he knows 1t all. He
and his wife and his grown sons and
are never too old to go to-
agricultural high schools to learn
what they need to know to get the
most out of their land and the best
out of life. The Danes are the best
educated people in the world. not,
perhaps, culturally, but in training
for practical needs. (Rural Credit,
pages 212-2D.
France Has 100 Departments.
France is divided into departments
to our counties. There are
100 departments which maintain
each departmental professor of
agriculture who gives a two years
course in agriculture in the public
normal school and must hold at least
26 institutes year to give farmers
There are also ia trav-
cling agricultural experts who give
short courses of four to 10 days to