The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-06-09
SCIENCE ON FARM
Agriculturist Of Today Must
Know Business Thoroughly.
Canadian TiIIers Of the Soil Have
Proved That Old Days of Hap
hazard Methods Have Gone.

Agriculture in Canada has the sta
tus of a profession which both its high
standard of operation and the prime
place it occupies in national life justi-
fly. The days when land was casually
filed on and farmed without any in
telligent understanding of agricultural
processes are going with the dwindling
availability of the land. and rapidly
passing is the epoch. of the destruc-
ton of soil values, and the abandon
ment of farms. which have been rem
dered unproductive. Clearer and clear
er has become the realization that
farming is a specialized profession re-
quiring special training. and in the
place of this spoliation there is an
intelligent system of crop rotation.
preservation of the virtue of the land.
discovery of the nobility Of the
farmers calling and determination
to secure and achieve the best pos.
sible in everything.
The Education of the Farmer.
Agricultural colleges, experimental
farms, government literature, railway
propaganda, all in an appreciation OF
the national benefits which accrue,
contribute to the education of the
farmer who, if he starts out in ignO-
rance, speedily discovers the futility
and profitiessness of continuing in
this state. 1t Is only Of comparatively
recent years that farming in Canada
has become the comprehensive and ex-
haustive study it is and it's tenets
been so widely absorbed, and older
farmers who have followed haphaZard
methods or systems scientifically I'M
sound are gradually forced from neces-
sity into an intelligent study and APP
plication of their profession.
This brings us to the city man who
is anxious to leave his old life. for the
greater freedom of the country and
take farm for himself, and, the fore
going holding good, he need not follow
far behind the older farmer if he take
up the study of his work seriously,
bring energy and intelligence to bear
upon a following out of the systems
of experienced and successful agricul-
turists, and utilize the results of the
expert investigation anG research the
Dominion places at his disposal. The
whole country is working for him and
the novice has almost an equal op-
portunity with the farmer of life
time.
A census of Canadian farmers would
probably show that fully one-half are
not farmers sons and were not
brought up to the life of the farm. Yet
none would criticize Canada's farmers
on the score of poor farming methods
in general, the excellency of their
crops with international honors and the
universal demand for their livestock
products refuting this effectually. Sig
nificant is it. too, that practically all
the farmers who have achieved the
most signal honors at international
farming competitions have not been
lifelong farmers, but city men who.
taking to the land after reaching ma
,turity without the remotest previous
knowledge of agricultural activities,
have through intelligent study and
close application Of the best farming
methods surpassed the efforts of those
agriculturists who have continued do
ing things on the farm in the way
their fathers used to do them.
For further particulars, pamphlets
regarding Canada, railway rates, etc.,
apply to F. A. Harrison, 210 N. Third
St, Harrisburg, Pa.-Adyertisement.