American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-12-07

$3l8.19 more net profit than the
whole group. and also returned "a
cents more for each dollar invested in
feed and reduced the cost of butter
fat 2.6 cents per pound. Those not
reading dairy papers returned s1.01
for each dollar invested in feed and
produced butterfat at a cost of 22.7
cents a pound. he ratio of profitable
to Improbable herds which indicates
the probability of success was nearly
seven times (6.9) as great among
those who read and studied dairy
literature than among those who did
not read.
| have selected these tablets at ran
dom from the list of 26 ~canyasses re-
ported from states widely separated.
but the story is the same in every
case. II IS the man who reads and
studies that succeeds. The dairy
farmer who is reading good dairy
papers like Hoard's Dairyman, Kim
balls Dairy Farmer The Milk Dealer,
The Dairy Record, Jersey Bulletin,
Holstein-Friesian World, The Ayr
shire Record, The Guernsey Breeders
formal, The Breeders Gazette and the
dairy sections Of such farm apers
as the Mail and Breeze, The Texas
Farm and Ranch, The Progressive
Farmer, Wallace's Farmer, The Min
nesota Farmer The Country Gentle
man, Successful Farming, Valley Far
mer an many other farm Jour
nails of this class as we'll as the special
bulletins on farming published by the
u. 5. Department of Agriculture and
the various state experiment stations
are the men who are making the BUSH
ness OF farming a profitable enter
prise.
All of our larger daily papers should
employ a trained agricultural editor
TO carefully compile and edit this farm
material. Agricultural colleges and
experiment stations should require
thelr specialists to prepare special
matter on farming every week for the
use of the press. Many colleges and
universities are already doing this,
but they are not giving as much atten-
ton to this matter as they should. Not
only should they prepare this matter,
but they should wage a strenuous
campaign to induce newspapers to use
this material. Too often much sea-
sonal matter is sent out too late to be
of real value. This is especially true
of many of the bulletins that are sent
out. To be of real value they should
be mailed several weeks in advance
II needed My past experience in
newspaper work has convinced me
that the manner of printing and dis
tributing these bulletins needs to be
thoroughly systematized in every
state. Some of our agricultural col
leges and universities have already
taken steps along this line.
Recently the Louisiana university
and A. & NJ. college cooperating with
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
upon the recommendation of DR.. W.
X. Dodson. director of the Louisiana
experiment station, established a de
partment of farm and home study
clubs for he purpose of systematic
ing extension reading courses for
farmers and all classes of people in
terested in agricultural pursuits.
Thus far outlines for farm reading
courses based on farmers bulletins
OF the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture and local bulletins of the Louis
lana experiment station have been
worked out for soils. crops. livestock
farming. dairying. poultry farming,
orcharding, gardening. farm manage
ment and home economics. and hun
dreds of Louisiana farmers are now