Show HOW TO FUN t A help to the farmer who wil help himself experience nd truitt enung it ta is euay emy for any man to make a statement ta but it la is nut not always go easy for on one t to tell hm experience and results correctly opinions about the best nieth methods of art preparation pa ration of soils wils for planting moat most any of the gram grain crops ll 11 ary r y 1 just precisely precis ly as widely as the r results u ili t obtained by fart farmer ners ary A keen and perceptive eye of wide exper expert ence at a glance over a business nuns mans open desk deik tells the whole story of his fitness s to pre aid i over the respective iv fc alees the same iced eye at a glance over the barnyard and premise 3 of the operator quickly reveals the truth of lm his fatness for the voc a u he has chosen I 1 to be a il nw hAnic a lawer lawyer or a barber me one must start as an apprentice under experienced men mer in those lines if he hopes to attain success now to be a farmer and to attain any degree of success I 1 do not know of any other vocation where a greater amount of knowledge and experience would add more mom to the profession fes sion fanning farming when properly understood is 1 the moat most interesting profession open to man of all stations in life now the farmer has the job and what Is is more the other fellow dont want ant it soil to moat most people is krupl dirt and is to be shunned by them as such to me it is 13 marvelously interesting soil is not a still dead mattir but it is the most alive and active actie thing that I 1 know of when I 1 hear a man whining about his poor soil not fitted for anything but prairie dogs rattlesnakes and owls I 1 am aln compelled to pity tho the mans poor brain of 0 course the tho man must bo be more moro human than the soil nevertheless ai e that poor soil the same kind of treatment that moat most paren parents ts would a eon son and I 1 daro say the soil will respond more cleverly to the kind treatment it receives than most boys would of my alais when I 1 was a boy unacquainted with this particular soil I 1 am ur able to state just what methods nie thodi of preparation are best but when I 1 have examined the soils and learned its foundation and how it responds to tho the various treatments tits I 1 shall then civo some scientific facts in III another article on soil that will bo be of some help to the tho failers who want to know it is safe to say it would not bo be amiss if every farmer in this country would intensify his preparation and auld cultivation farmers arc are very dependent one upon another and they should be equally helpful to each other othar 1 if mm men in other eions mions had to workout work out the arts and acl ua ances of their trades without the aid of 0 trained and experienced instructors most apprentices would soon hink think they wanted tho the fans farm r job c 0 b in which case commerce would SU auf fsr u c and farmers would w ant a nt to quit their jobs too dus saine same principle applies to every ferniel it is wonderful afu I 1 to observe the short cuts and long strides forward those fanner farmers make who are ket ken n to observe the principles emp employed loed by those are moat saul to frn euh ck scully one must plan ahead one two and ean caara for thia hu reason rewn you wani to plana an orchard or eyd seed to alfalfa your fluid field to bo be used must bv prepared fitted etc and other like examples eam plea for all kinda kinds of crops conderino con dering diverdi sif inland ing ine and rotating absolutely alsol necessary if you ever hope to keep up the producing element elements in your soil the principles of which aro are nitrogen phosphorus and potassium which also must be in availably available forms it ia Is also of equal ini impure pot tance that the proportions of each be fitted to the requirements 4 c er crop you arc to grow grov I 1 have heard it said in convention by collegiate farmers of whom wo we have some that in their an uneducated tamper farmer could not farm intelligently but in that connection I 1 will state hero here frankly I 1 know personally iso some moat and entitle itic farmers far meis who scarcely have ha e had enough schooling to enable them to read and urite rite their names I 1 find in my personal experience that if a man is intelligent enough to be flexible in his opinions and is willing to apply himself it toed not bo be a matter for such a man to do scientific farming in my net next letter I 1 will try to gk give a a me valuable information about jhb importance import anco of good seed and how to get it and the importance of rotating crops youra yours very truly II 11 II 11 |