A CONTRAST.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 3 April 1908, Page 7

A CONTRAST.

A vast number Of farmers do not believe that science and a thorough agricultural education can help a man to be a more successful farmer. They do not believe that such knowledge will aid a man to grow larger crops, increase the fertility of his soil, and in the end sell his products for a better price. All this they refuse to believe:- and they refuse to give theiaselves or their sons any chance to take in and absorb this better knowledge. At the dedication of the new agricultural, buildings at the State college of Pennsylvania, General James A. Beaver gave such men this nut to crack:' "On the college farm the average yield of timothy hay on six acres was 5 tons to the acre, while on farm lands not a mile distant and equally as good- by nature, the yield of timothy was less than one ton per acre." You will see such farmers holding on to their worn out methods; poor unprofitable cows; impoverished lands and poor crops, and all the time comforting themselves thank Heaven that they haven't been fooled by any college professor, or any "book farming." When will the larger truth shine into these men's minds?—" Hoard's Dairyman."