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amount of seed to be sown on her soil. It was not luck. So, then, there 

 Is a way of getting over thirty bushels of wheat to the acre. Then there 

 must be special training. 



I was in France a few years ago and they were harvesting what I 

 thought was a good crop of wheat, which was an average of fifty bushels 

 to the acre for all of France. Think of that The average In England, 

 as you know, is something over thirty bushels. Now France and England 

 were old before the United States of America was discovered, so that 

 there must be something in the tending and studying of the soil, vitality 

 of the seed, choice of variety, etc. . We need it. If we had it we would not 

 have to own six acres of land in order to get what we should get from 

 one. I think we have a very interesting department resulting from the 

 study of the seed corn in Indiana within the last few years. 



I once heard a young man who had spent four years of time and 

 money in a college say that if he had learned nothing else but what 

 he learned about capillarity he would have been well repaid. He had 

 learned it in college, and he had learned it in connection with the culti- 

 vation of corn, etc., and in dry seasons he could raise additional bushels. 

 So, we who are not getting sixty or eighty Inishels of corn are in need 

 of special training that will enlighten us about the soil, the acre — about 

 the seed and its vitality, and about its cultivation— knowledge of the prin- 

 ciples, which is special training. What do we mean? Simply this. First 

 to observe accurately and to think correctly, and to draw conclusions 

 with sound judgment. A trained mind is able to do that much more 

 readily than a mind which is not trained. I am particularly interested, 

 and anyone who lives in Indiana must be, in live stock, and yet, what do 

 we find? Cattle, sheep, horses, hogs and everything else that have been 

 bred in Indiana the same for years. There are great possibilities in this 

 line, but yet, how many farmers are there who are equipped with cattle 

 that are fit either for meat or beef; sheep that are fit for mutton; horses 

 that are fit for draft or speed horses. There needs to be special training 

 along these lines, because it is most profitable — the most profitai)lo lino 

 of husbandry that can be engaged in. I was very much interested a 

 short time ago to hear a friend of mine say that he raised tomatoes be- 

 cause he found he was able to sell more water in that way than any 

 other way, ninety-five per cent, being water, and that took none of the 

 vitality away from the farm. So In the matter of live stock. We are 

 carrying little fertilizer away from the farm. As you know, there is a 

 deep-seated prejudice against pure-breed cattle, the breeds which we call 

 pure breeds. A piire breed makes a much better butter cow, much 

 better beef. We find any amount of cattl? that will lay on perhaps as 

 m'any pounds as the very best pure breeds, but they haven't the quality 

 which, put on the market. brJTig liigh prices, so the profit is lost. So we 

 need special training along tliese lines. 



To illustrate: Opportunities often come to people who have this 



