Show WHO ARE THE RUBES it is about time the city people anil and the city newspapers quit refer referring to the american America ii farmer as a rube and caricaturing turing him hill as a low brow european peasant only slightly americanized by a set of chin chill whiskers a la uncle sam the trouble with city folks especially in new york and elsewhere in the east is that they get et their impressions of the farmer as of everything else from european sources because the mass of people tilling the soil in europe are uneducated unintelligent peasants tenants for the most part ard and tied to the soil aj as no american has ever been so tied the city bred i europe conscious people who have never penetrated any farther into america than t the he shores of the atlantic ocean think american farmers must be the same type nothing could be farther from the truth no individual or class of our people has been more prompt to apply new methods of science new inventions new ways of doing old things than the american farmer the implication when lie he is referred to as a rubi enbe is that he is a stupid stu did unprogressive person content to do everything as his father and grandfather did it before him As a matter of fact practically not nothing hillL is done ration on american ago farms today the way it was done a genc one of the things that has brou brought ht about the change has been the development of the tj numerous colleges of agriculture nothing like them is known in any part of the world old time farmers used to sneer at the idea that college could do a farmer any good but the progressive farmers of today are practically all college graduates and athe leadership o in every movement these for schools the betterment of farm conditions comes from our national and state departments of aZri agriculture culture have enlisted in their service the service of the american farmer more men inen 0 or hish high scientific attainment engaged in vital research into the manifold problems which the farmer must solve lf if he is to succeed than are engaged in any other field of scientific inquiry our agricultural ameul tural experiment stations have taught the man with the hoe not only new and better ways of doing doin things but the reason why they are better |