THE VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1322, 28 December 1911, Page 8

THE VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE.

WHAT ONE γ-armeu DID. Some farmers of tho old school who .havo won success and a good deal of practical exporieuee profess 'to despite agricultural education for their tons, in spite, of the fact that they aro well able I;) pay for it. For tho benefit of the above-it may ho. of some use lo.quote Ihe following illustration of the valuo of an agricultural college course:— "J. P. Barker, a yrnduale of the College of Agriculture of Ohio State University, lives in Jleigs C'ounly. Ohio. Tor years tho farmer* ot' his community had been nimble-to grow clover. AVhilc in college he learned about acid soils , and the use of lime. In the spring when ho went home, he decided to try aii experiment on his home farm. He placed a low bushels of linio on some litter in the manure spreader and drove across Ihe field. Where he applied the lime there was an excellent -growth of clover in a strip wngon-widp, but there was none elsewhere. This little experiment at- , traded the atlcnliou of (he neighbours' nnd n number of them tried limo with gratifying results. Now, that community is_ growing clovct and improvini; its soils, all because one boy went to tho College of Agriculture. This is truly u caso where 'a little leaven Jpavenetb Ihe whole lump.'—News Letter of tho Ohio College of Agriculture.""