How to Make the Farm Pay Or the Farmer's Book of Practical Information on Agriculture, Stock Raising, Fruit Culture, Special Crops, Domestic Economy and Family Medicine Classic Reprint

Excerpt from How to Make the Farm Pay: Or the Farmer's Book of Practical Information on Agriculture, Stock Raising, Fruit Culture, Special Crops, Domestic Economy and Family Medicine

In this land of schools, where every child can have an educa tion, knowledge is easily disseminated. Improved methods of culture can be spread broadcast over the land by means of books and papers. For these reasons American farmers are more intelligent than the same class in any other country. Few farmers are now so ignorant as to scoff at agricultural informa tion. They desire it, and welcome it. The trouble has been and is, that it is not given them in a form adapted to their wants. There have been many technical and scientific works, containing most valuable information, but in language not readily under stood. These works are very largely theoretical, and the practical is not so distinctly separated as to be easily applied.

They have performed a noble service, for without the informa tion they have contained, but little advance would have been made.

The agricultural papers come down more nearly to the wants of the farmer, and we advise every farmer to take some agricul tural paper. They furnish many useful hints and valuable suggestions, and serve to interest the younger members of the family in the labors of the farm. But agricultural papers are not wholly satisfactory. Of course, each number can refer to only a limited variety of subjects, and a farmer may take the paper for years before he gets information upon the very subject he wishes most to know about. Again, much that is in these papers is crude. Many theories are given that have not been sufficiently tried, and must be received with the greatest caution. The records of carefully conducted experiments are the most valuable part of these papers, if the farmer has the wisdom and patience to study them, and apply their principles to his practice.

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