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Show TIME TO STUD.Y. i i J. Cecil Alter. . i Maybe you hadn't thought of it, but this coming winter season is the i greatest and best one of the year for the farmer boy and girl, if the propcr croD is sown, but like a good field of beets you don't get much out of it if you don't plant the seed and cul- J tivate the plants. 1 This winter when the farm cares J arc lessened, is the one study period i that comes to the farmer. It is not the only educational period, for he learns every day if he is diligent, but nothing can take the place of a. thorough thor-ough study period study along the lines of our work, to find out why the things arc true that come- to us every day as cold facts. The one place to do this mental work, and get this systematic study habit is in some agricultural college that has good facilities for teaching agricultural and associated subjects. If you arc going to be a farmer you've got to be a good one; the day is gone when you can ibe considered an intelligent farmer if you haven't spent from one to foiir winters in a first-class agricultural training school and this educational business is like a good bath the only way to get it 9 is to take it. |