The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-01-25
Know What
Is Going On!

Probably you are not one Of the
Rip Van Wrinkles Of farming. The
fact that you have in your hands this
issue Of farmers publication that
you are studying up on the success.
or to the horse, is fair proof that
you are not.
Yet, there Is still an untold multi.
tude of Van Wrinkles on the farms OF
this country. They do not actually
saunter over to the wooded corner
in the back pasture and lie down,
like the original Rip, to snooze OF
twenty ears, but to all purposes and
results they might as well do so.
They are asleep to the old news that
farming methods are forging ahead
It is unfortunate, but 1t is true. 1t
has held us down TO a condition in
agriculture that is actually losing bill.
lions for the United States annually.
These were the men who dozed at
the handle of the cradle and the
scythe-not for twenty, but for thir.
ty long years, while the reaper and
the binder were patiently struggling
for recognition. But the modern ma.
chimes won out. Every Van Wrinkle
has his binder nowadays. Why does
not he catch on Is he not able to
make out the moral? Will he always
struggle along with the drones, miles
and miles behind the van Of Pro-
gress.
There can be but one answer-The
Van Wrinkles do not know what is
going on. They wake up empty
handed when the thing is accomplish.
ed, and the. alert leaders have long
been garnering the early bird prof
its. We cannot keep up with the
procession unless We know what is
going on.
Observation, anywhere among farm
ers, shows always that the progress
sive men read and study consistent
ly some of the best farm papers. The
fortunate few Of US attended agricul-
tural schools for season or two, or
for few months. Most OF us find
much Of value in the bulletins of the
Department Of Agriculture, but the
big dissemination Of farming knew.
ledge--easily available to everyone
is the farm press.
Ask John P. Honeycutt, one OF the
most famous and most successful Of
modern farmers. Honeycutt was a
Chicago printer until few years ago,
but he studied modern farming and
went out and bought farm at Am.
boy, III. He practiced what he had
learned. Today he is almost nat
ional figure, a leader in agriculture.
DO you suppose Honeycutt is not q
bosom friend of the farm papers?
David Rankin built up the largest
corn farm in the world-about $4,000
acres down in Missouri. He devoted
his life to the pleasant pursuit Of
right farming, and he succeeded
nightly, for he made $4,0O0,O0O.
Rankin knew the value Of the farm
press.
There is a great deal to be learned
in the practice Of farming in the Un-
tied States. We have thus far had a
rich country to dabble in and we
have dabbled. But 1t becomes more
necessary, each year, that we know
and follow new methods-seed selec.
ton, proper tillage, growing and har-
vesting, fertilizing, proper rotation OF
crops, stock breeding and feeding, the
use Of mechanical farm power.
European crops yields and profits per
acre are commonly twice our max.
imum-it is clear that We have much
to learn!
Every business and profession has
its much-studied trade journals.
Farming-both business and a pro-
fession-has boon In the farm press.
It is high time the last OF the Rip
Van Wrinkle became aware of the
fact.-Tractor Farming.