Show 4 STUDENT LIFE A specialist becomes known by the superiority’ of his product and gets the best price for it It is the Inferior product that crowds the markets and tends to lower the price A person must give special attention to a crop or it is very likely to be inferior Then too there is the waste in connection with the production There is always more or less that is not marketable and the general farmer w ill have more of this class of goods by reason of his having so many crops (icneral farming has a tendency to make a man like a “rolling stone” This year potatoes or some other crop sells at a very high price and next year he spends his time cultivating potatoes Several others do the same thing and it results in a flooded market and a decline in price There is a great deal of difference between profit and Income A person may have an income of $looo derived from a number of sources such as the sale of cattle grain liay milk fruit etc and there may be no profit in any of them owing to the cost of production On the other hand an income of $1000 derived from a single source where a man has concentrated his efforts may show a very large profit A specialist keeps better track of his business and knows when he is making or losing while the general farmer is likely to carry a dead-hea- d crop without knowing it Success in any business depends largely upon the management and perfection of details and a person engaged in special farming has a far better to take care of and develop the opportunity details Neglect of details will result in a partial or complete failure They are neglected at the expense of the profits The fact that a person has a number of crops often causes him to push them only half way but this soit of business will never succeed The reason that most people practice general is farming the idea that some crop is apt to fail and they are sure of one crop succeeding This idea is the cause of a great many failures It shows a weakness and lack of faith In the majority of cases men are to blame for the failure of a crop It may not be through the lack of will power or energy but it is very often through lack of knowledge Energy without know ledge is like steam escaping into the air Specialization has been one of the prominent features in the rapid development of all professions and sciences If doctors had continued to cover the whole field of medicine the medical profession would never have dove loped to its present stage The same is true of all arts and sciences and it is reasonable to suppose that agriculture would have developed much more rapidly if specialization had been incorporated into it earlier in its history Farmers' Institutes For those who may not be fully acquainted with the aims and uses of Farmers’ Institutes it might be wise to give a brief history of their organization in this State and throughout the country at large It was in the early seventies that definite shape was first given to the organization which was later known as the Farmers’ Insti- tute Previous to this time there had been scattered local agricultural clubs winch in some cases had been doing educational work In these the present Farmers’ Institute System may be said to have had its origin In 1871 the Iowa Agricultural College sent out some of its professors to lecture to the farmers A year later Vermont and Michigan followed her example However Michigan was the first state in this country to authorize an educational institution to carry instruction to farmers who were not students in the college Year by year other states began to follow the example set till now there is not a state in the union that lias not some form or other of Farmers’ Institute system In nearly all cases t lie beginning came from the State Agricultural College the woik being organized and the lectures given by its professors In Utah Farmers’ Institutes were first organized in 18! They began by virtue of an act of the State Legislature which authorized the faculty of the Agricultural College to hold Institutes for the instruction of the citizen of the State in the various branches or agriculture Tiie course of instruction at such insti- - |