South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-10
URGES EUROPEAN
FAR MERS TO USE
AMERICAN METHODS
international Institute of Az.
- riculture Makes Recon-
mendatiOns.
BY II. X. REYNOLDS,
International News Service Staff
CurrpSpOudeut

" AGEiA-NAr IN Nov. t.-lne Eu-
ropean farmer has become a de-
voice and a master Of modern Amer
ican farm machinery. but ne IS find
ing that pretty RED pIows and pat
snt binders from across the sea are
falling 20 keep the boys and girls
down on the farm.
Paris or Rome or London is ever
90 much more exciting than papa's
new gasoline tractor or an electric
churn.
So he is again turning 20 the
United States for help-this time
for ideas and methods and plans
and instructions 90 make farm life
more interesting for the rising gen
Grafton.
When the international Institute
OF Agriculture met recently IN Rome
two important resolutions bearing
upon the subject OF the decreaslns
rural population were introduced b.
NJ de Vuyst. the delegate from Bel
GUM.
Look 70 America.
One resolution saIJ the institute
should collect data regarding the
organization and development OF
agricultural education and home
Necon omlcs teaching for boys and
IRIS as carried on an different coun
tries principally the u. s and
the other urged tho amelIoratiOn Of
rural social and home conditions.
In discussing his first resolution
before the assembly, N. de Nuys-
described boys and girls club work
o. no
as q means of making farm. life more
attractive
These clubs" he said. accordine
% the official report Of the meet
ing received here. "group the boy
and girls-sometimes separately
sometimes together - with the ide
OF giving them instruction by dem
onstratons. which are followed by
application on their part 10 the
kitchen. garden or the barnyard.
The children make their little per-
sonal profit from the work: they
try 20 outdo their uelghbors and
thus become attached 90 farm worn
and find out with interest that they
are capable Of progress"
Study Human Needs.
The second resolution of NJ. de
Vuyst referred 20 a statement made
IN 1904 by the assistant secretary
OF agriculture Of Canada to the ef-
feet that agriculture consisted az
first OF the study Of the soil. the
plants and animals Of the farm. but
that a few years previous a great
discovery had been made: that on
the farm there were not only beasts
D.. a~rs- 81 Frr a. D.
q farmer 20 be aided and studied as
a man. a workman. IN intellectual
and social being. Ana more recently.
according to the secretary, a still
i. more sensational discovery had been
j made-"that this farmer had a wife
: and family and hat the pivot or
work on the farm was neither IN
the fields nor the barns, but be-
tween four walls Of the house"
Better Farm life.
In addressing the institute. NJ. d.
Vuyst stressed the need for making
the ownership of property easier
for the farmer. the necessity for
identifying farm SURROUNDINGS ana
making the rural home more COM
Portable and convenient, for better
ing the lot Of the farmers wife and
for introducing more mechanical
and electrical devices TO lessen the
drudrery. Social life and recrea-
ton public and private sanitation.
roads and eroupinE OF farm build
ings were other matters calling for
Improvement. according 10 the dele
gates.
American educational methods. as
developed In the cooperative ex-
tension worI, of the United States
department of agriculture and the
state agricultural colleges. were re-
ferred 90 repeatedly.
Extension work for women in this
country was discussed IN detail. "a
showing what could be done 10 bet
ter the farm home conditions in Eu-
rope.