Show C esry ot jp j rm many bannera laugh at the notion cf applying abe principles of chemistry on the farm calling such an application of science fooling and yet farmers see their sons grow ap and drift away because having been educated in the public schools the spirit of a scientific and progressive age has possessed them and they elsewhere than upon an old fashioned farm scope for the education which they have already gained and for the wider education which they crave now there is no field which offers more ample scope for an educated and scientific mind than a good farm the old fashioned farmer says what do I 1 want to know about chemistry its enough if I 1 manure the ground and plant my seed nature will take care of the rest but the application of manure is chemistry and if the farmer or his boy understands the groundwork of that science he knows what kind of manure is good for a certain field and what kind ia good for another field and his knowledge may make for him or save for him many dollars in a single year A knowledge of chemistry will enable him to save the valuable properties of bis manures for the soil instead of letting precisely those properties be evaporated and wasted aa they are in the case of most natural manures as now treated on the farms of this country but the most important function of science on fee farm after all at the present time is not the immediate material advantage which it may bring to the farmer but the means which it will aup ply of interesting the young of engaging their active and eager intelligence and keeping them from places where they will be very much worse off youths companion |