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Show I Know What I IsJSoing On! BB Probably you aro not ono of the B Hip Van Winkles of farming. Tho HB fact that you havo In your hands this HK lssuo of a farmer's publication that HJ you aro studying up on tho success- HB or to tho horse, Is fair proof that HR you aro not. HJ Yet, thcro Is still an untold raultl- H tudo of Van Winkles on tfio farms of iflf this country. They do not actually BS saunter over to tho wooded corner BY In tho back pasturo and He down, HR llko the original Hip, to a snooze or HE twenty curs, but to all purposes and H results they might as well do so. HB They aro asleep to the old news that HJ farming methods aro forging ahead BV It Is unfortunate, but It la truo. It BE has held us down to n condition In Bff agrlculturo that is actually losing I) 11- B lions for tho United States annually. jB These wcro tho men who dozed nt Bl tho handlo of tho cradlo and tho Bfl scythe not for twenty, but for thir- BJ ty long years, whllo the reaper and Wm the blndor wcro patiently struggling By for recognition. But the modern ma- B chines won out. Every Van Wlnklo H lias bis binder nowadays. Why docs K not ho catch on Is ho not able to BJ mako out the moral? Will ho always H struggle along with tho drones, miles fl and miles behind the van of Pro- gross. Bj There can bo but ono answer Tho H Van Winkles do not know what is going on. They wako up empty I banded when the thing is accomplish- Hf cd, and the alert leaders havo long Bj been garnering tho early bird prof- H Its. Wo cannot keep up with tho 8 procession unless wo know what is BJ going on. BJ Observation, anywhero among farm. J. crs, shows always that the progres-BJ progres-BJ slvo men read and study consistent-J consistent-J ly some of tho best farm papers. Tho H fortunate few of us attended ngrlcul-H ngrlcul-H tural schools for a season or two, or BJ for a few months. Most of us And H much of value in the bulletins of tho H Department of Agrlculturo, but the H big disseminator of farming know-Hi know-Hi ledge easily available to everyone f Is tho farm press. BJ Ask John P. Honeycutt, one of the Bj most famous and most successful of H modern farmers. Honeycutt was a jH ' Chicago printer until few years ago, JH but ho studied modern farming and tjA went out and bought a farm at Am-H Am-H boy, III. He practiced what be bad Bj learned. Today ho is almost a nat" lonal figure, a leader In agriculture. H Do you suppose Honeycutt Is not a jH bosom friend of the farm papers? BJ David ltankin built up tho largest Bj corn farm In tho world about 35,000 H acres down in Missouri. Ho devoted H his life to tho plcasent pursuit of H right farming, and lw succeeded J mightily, for ho mado 14,000,000. J Rankin know the valuo of tho farm jH press. H Thero is a great deal to bo learned BJ in the practice of farming in tho Un- BJ Ited Statos. Wo havo thus far had a H rich country to dabble in and wo .H have dabbled. But it becomes more BJ necessary, each year, that we know H and follow now methods soed selec- J tlon, proper tillage, growing and bar- HJ vesting, fertilizing, proper rotation of j crops, stock breeding and feeding, tho fl uo of mechanical farm power. BJ European crops yields and profits per BJ acre aro commonly twice our max- H imum it Is clear that We havo much BJ to learn! BJ Every business and profession has H its much-studied trade Journals. BJ Farming both a business and a pro- flj fession has n boon in tho farm press. Bj it is high tlmo tho last of tho Rip Bj Van Wrlnklo became aware of tho BJ fact. Tractor Farming. |