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Show -MJ ' FARMERS SKEPTICAL Large Percentage Declare De-clare That Experience Is the Only Agricultural Agricul-tural College Washington. Mar. 21. More than 4u per cent of all the farmers interviewed inter-viewed bv government representat i ve believe that experience is the only way to learn how to farm. This percentage per-centage told agents recently sent out by the department of agriculture that they took no stock in farmers' Institutes, Insti-tutes, demonstration agents, farm papers pa-pers or department of agriculture publications as aides In helping to moke the soil more productive Starting on motorcycles or on foot, four department agents traveled through thirteen states, visiting e -er farmer alone the wav and asklnc question? This inquiry revealed the fact that of the farmers who not department de-partment of agriculture bulletins. S4 per cent read them and per cent followed the suggestions contained contain-ed therein. Of those who attended farmers' institutes, it was learned that 54 per cent practiced the meth-f, meth-f, ! . ad ocati d there nn - |