Show M MIDDLE IDDLE AGE AD ADOPTS NEW l U 1 I IDEAS AS nj n D AS S YOUTH I t ll tt t ma may be lie tn that t you ou cant can't loach an nn old tog k s new t tucks tricks but butge a age age- ge apparently is 15 no barrier to f farm arni men and women in making Chau changes es from Irom the lold ud ways ays t to tho ho I I l new in farming and und homo making New V. an and better Is s o of v i 1 I Ito I to ur are arc Cin constantly being I introduced by the thc United States Department De Be- I of 1 and the state slate agricultural through cooperative tiTe wU n work Many allY extension slon workers are of the 1 n I that young farmers are arc im re likely to adopt the now practices than arc are a ased Cd or elderly farmers This o opinion however is s not born out bythe bythe by bythe the r results of ota a study tudy im 1636 G farmers in four states recently com cent completed by M. M C. C Wilson who is in charge of e extension tension studies t liar for r the ollice of cooperative extension w work nark United Slates es Depart Department of dt t Agri gri- gri culture Fully as high a proportion of or farmers 4 45 to CO GO ye years rs of or age adopts the new V practices 3 recommended bythe bythe by bythe the ext extension vo h is as do the I I 1 I I rays s-aJ's Mr 11 Wi Wilson Dividing the farmers Included cd i in inthe i ithe the sturdy tur Y into S grO groups each with an age age- age difference rence o f 1 five fire e years rears it was found that 76 76 per pel cent of or the farn- farn I falin in the he io youngest st group 30 30 I Iah ah and i less changed practices as as a r 1 result C f U ii as c compared ed to 77 per cent iJ iu in tJ the groups r 31 t to J I 35 5 and 3 G to to 1 10 years Y l' l X Tew e ew i ideas cag I I I I were adopted by 79 per cent 0 of those J 41 1 to to age e J rt e r l it r I 1 those to 50 O years ears c of age ge per pcr cent of thio those 51 iii to tJ 55 fiG years Cars of ig ago age 71 per c cent nt to 10 th those se 56 to to GO 60 O Year years old oh and by GG per pel cent 0 of the Iho II 61 Gl years cars of oC age ae or older o T. T I t t f- f I t J on these j samo fauns ral r dec t to lie he t teaching aching f new nc practices in home hOUle economics In much the same way Y Says Mr fl Wils Wil il- il s sLon on tire the age group i 40 40 to Gi 61 c l null end over o made made approximately Xima elY as as' as much use UEe rt of if new hew e i ideas as ts 3 li hid did tho farm tarin w women m ll of 30 cars or younger 1 I 1 F From thesa S surprising rd I II ich i indicated I w that c farmers an and farm women l are as progressive pro pro- I e and amI as as' as t to La lW ui e of oi I i the lat latest t. t diSco erics in in u agri agriculture and amid home hom-e Tes as tile I L I- I g generation l 1 Mr i. i P. P c 1 1 that thia desire to l learn alnis Is ha a of I I much h. h greater e ha r a iio ago I |