The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1918-03-14
The Bates County Club at the
University Of Missouri.

members at the end OF the 1lrSt Sc
mester. Miss Helen Cook. Miss
Selma Gench, and Mr.. James S.
Williams left the. university and Miss
Dorothy Armstrong and Mr.. kirkby
Walker enrolled. Miss Cammie Fem
ton is no longer member since her
marriage to Mr. Nj, |. Hurley Janu-
AIRY 81, 1918.
The members had their pictures.
taken for the 1918 Savitar February
The following article is by Donald
! {. Pharis, a junior in til. College Of
Agriculture:
The need OF scientifically trained
| farmers has never been more press
ing than now; with demands from al
sides for increased production, and
with fewer men and hard-pressed
soils to meet them. When ninety per
cent of the total population lived on
farms, and the new lands had lost
none OF their fertility, it was an easy
matter to raise enough food for the
nation. 1t was then that "just any |
body" could make living by poor
farming methods. 1t required no
pecial'training to raise fifty to eighty
bushels of corn on very rich land, nor
was it difficult to feed cattle and hogs
economically, with all feeds SO album
dant and cheap. These conditions
have changed Constant abuse of
lands has made them poor, and farm
lie has not been attractive enough to
induce the young people to remain i'll
the country; the result has been that
today sixty-five per cent OF the total
is in the city, leaving the
remaining thirty-five per cent to fur
nish food for the entire nation and
other countries.
Thus, with the population increas,
ing, and the productive power OF the
soils ever decreasing, it is little Won
der that men are coming to realize
that farming must be studied just as
thoroughly as medicine or engineer
ing. In the past, most farmers have
made a success by buying their land
when it was cheap and getting rich
from the rise in land values, rather
than by their own ability as farm
To the young farmer who
has only his health and ambition 10
start on, making success in buying
md operating farm is an entirely
different proposition His land will
not increase in price TO a great eS-
ent, soils are poorer. and expenses
greater; he will he all exception il
lie has anything lett alter paving in
crest. taxes, labor expenses, and Nv
ny expenses.
1t is the purpose OF the agricultural
schools to teach. as lar as possible,
he better methods OF farming that
lave been proved to be the, best. and
he scientific principles upon Whic;,
hesc are based. The, study ~
ciences such as botany, bacteriology,
physics, chemistry, animal nutrition,
nd others is necessary before one
an really understand agriculture. 50
hc,c form large part II The agfi-
ultural students work. The appli
alton OF these principles i. taught i'll
he practical courses such as dairy
horticulture, bookkeeping,
oultry raising, forage crops, pork
nd beef production, cutting and cur
lg meats, stock judging, farm ma
ninery, motors, and hundred 9TH
rs.
The men who teach these know
ler business, and how to instruct
theirs. They never recommend Il
ractice unless it has been proved by
,tual use to be right. So the old
ea OF the impractical college pro-
ssor' is all wrong, as anyone
1ows who has visited agricultural
hools. These are but few of the
asons why the College of Agricul
re plays such an important part In
e world today. A young man can
loose no profession offering greater t
,portunities than agriculture, and =
nee this is the day of the trained, =
ucated man, one does we'll to Sc
re an education at all costs while
may.