THE NEW FARMING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 5

THE NEW FARMING.

Pioneer farmers did not depend upon scientists, hut upon experience, writes Mr Fred K. Howard, American agricultural writer. That attitude, he says, had a tendency to narrow tne range of farming practice becuse individual experience in the old days was limited. Modern farmers are more apt to depend upon scientific research than experience. This has led to the adoption of some practices which are not entirely practical. Even so, the introduction of science has done much to widen the scope of farming practice. There is no good reason why any average progressive farmer should fail to master a -working knowledge of the basic facts comprising the half-dozen or more related sciences which, fitted together, complete the jig-saw puzzle wo call farming or agriculture. But fanners can widen their knowledge of both practical and scientific farming most quickly and soundly by visiting progressive farmers in other districts, by inspecting experimental farms and research stations, and by travelling in other countries than their own where the conditions of farming and the objectives arc similar to those of their ©wn.