| Show NEW KNOWLEDGE I 1 IN N FARMING I 1 an editorial talk in the april issue of farm and fireside its as plain as a red barn on a side hill bill that the business of farming has reached a sharp harp turn in the road that the ranks of the soil tillers are rapidly being separated into two ca camps amps ahe do lt As dad did its and the knowledge group right now of course the members of the new knowledge group are in the minority the old line far mers can outvote them on any proposition and not know that there has been a contest but just the same saine the agricultural colleges are turning out every year an increasing num ber of young youn men who can ell the veteran farmer fanner a whole lot about his own game best bes fc of all the new knowledge youth v N c can aej give cr a reason for the fai faith th that thai is in hi him m lie he can ca n W tell ill the v why hy ot of what happens in the cornfield the wheat field the pasture th the meadow the barn 5 3 ard and the dairy horse i and nd the be bet t part of it is tabt lip he is fa farming r m i n with an open mind instead of closed eyes and the tools that dad used no young man can today take even the short coursed cour courses seg in agricultural college collee colle e and not come out with the know knowledge knowledg led e that the best and biggest bi est e thing thin taught him there ther e is tb that it the world is still mavin td on and that he must keep on readith reading and studying and listening and thinking or ise else be will fall so far behind the procession of pro progress gress that he cant pt hear the band play or oi the bystanders cheer beef |
