The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-11-28

been generally considered an import
ant month in agriculture. On the con-
trary, it has been a very much neg
'ected month, almost month ignored.
lie the less, it does come very
to being ~st important
l. It'll in the "e farmer.
SIT IS a mont m mendous
poteatiality, d Gontn W. se useful
ness may be so spread out over the
other eleven.
There is no end of things that
should be done in December besides
getting ready for Christmas. That, to
tho ow a phrase from a very old
, Il &c on duty, is not on any account
~ e neglected" but it is due to be
II ., have rear-t~1 the old PIONEER
"a 8, who had to
W all summer
| ST winter. That
ou or every farmer
no nat..> or young he IS.
December 81 mark the beginning
of the session in his school. His
schoolhouse may very well be in his
own chimney corner. He has not
much time to read all spring, summer
and fall. Now, he does begin to have
little leisure-not that he has any
time to loaf, but he has his heels on
the ground. During the year there
nave been printed considerable num-
Der of good textbooks on farming.
Specialists of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture and other
specialists at the State agricultural
college have embodied in bulletins
..eresults of long and patient labor
on various things pertaining to farm
ing, have put h type facts that will
mean dollars to the farmer who learns
:hem and puts them into practice.
Pupils Study What They Like
Of course, this chimney-corner
school of agriculture allows its stud
ents a lot of leeway. The curriculum
is largely elective. The farmer may
study his and leave the other alone, |
as his interests and his interest may |
dictate. But there will be enough |
bulletins that are of interest to him to /
make a pretty full course of study. |
II he has neglected his education at |
Ill and isn't "up to his grade" there
nav be a great deal more than he can /
handle m one winter. The United
States Department of Agriculture has
,een publishing bulletins for great
many years. There are more than a
thousand Farmers Bulletins now on
he list, and every one of them discus
es something that means money to
large class of farmers. Many of the
objects have been supplemented and
ultural college or the State depart
nent of agriculture. There is abso-
ltely no reason why any farmer may
ot have all the scientific informa-
ion that exists on all phases of agri-
ulture that mean anything in his
articular operations. All he has to
o is to go to school to himself by
is own fireside.
The United States Department of 4
griculture maintains printed lists of :
s various publications, arranged by '
objects. Any farmer or and city d
weller or suburbanite who is in =.
,rester in chickens or a garden or C
ny of the things that pertain to J
rming- can have copy merely by i
riting for it. For the average farm
: it is worth spending an evening 4
rer, reading the titles and checking j
e ones he is interested in. Then he :
IN mail this check list to the Depart t,
ent of Agriculture, and the bulle- )
Us checked will be sent to him l
ithout charge. There are few bull Il
tins the supply of which become de- e
eted and copies are no longer given o
way, but they may be bought at Il
Try low price from the Superinten- Il
mt of Documents at Washington. A
he procedure is explained on the list Il
at is furnished by the Department tt
Agriculture. h,
Mother May Go to College, Too Iii
Every farmer owes it to himself and n,
5 family to find little time to go d;
school every winter-to read half T
dozen, or a dozen, or twenty bulle- T.
Is that will help him to make better as
ops, to keep his live stock in bet in
r condition with less feed, to carry E
his operations with less exhaus- CT
9 strain on himself. W
1t should be mentioned too, that hise
college of agriculture
coedncational. A very large pro-
rtion of the bulletins are devoted
household subjects. They contain
formation that will enable the farm
s wife better to carry her half Of Bl
. load-to feed the family better ed
tn less work, to realize more for Sc
. portion OF the farm output that HI
mes under her direction, to have Dt