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Show Farmer Not Practical IS IT not strango that, as a geniral class, 1 farmers arc less alert to tho jenellts of Improved farming methods selection of seed, thorough preparation of tho soil and rotation of cropi than are many city people? Farmers Farm-ers must concede that better methods do bring bigger profits, yet. too often, they arc Inclined to belittle tho work of farmers' institutes, in-stitutes, agricultural schools, the agricultural press, and persist In staying in tho rut and calling it "practical." In fact old methods ore the most impractical of all. for they aro out-of-date, wasteful of energy and unproductive unpro-ductive of results. Thl3 Is tho ago for In- ' telllgent farming only, and the man who I refuses to progress or to learn progressive p.ethods Is simply lacking In intelligence. There Is nothing practical about 1C It Is too often tho caso that tho preliminary work of preparing for a farmers' Institute Is done by the local bankers and merchants and land dealers, rather than by tho farmers who aro mobt benefited by the Institutes. |