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4. It enables farmers to get a supply of pure seed of the leading 

 varieties of grains and potatoes, which rapidly increases in quantity, and 

 thus furnishes seed for sowing and planting on large areas and for sell- 

 ing at good prices. 



5. It educates along the lines of careful handling and close observ- 

 ation, accurate calculation and economical methods. 



6. It trains men to unite science with practice and to lead other men 

 to do likewise. 



7. It helps farmers to understand better the scientific principles that 

 they read about in bulletins, reports and newspaper articles, and that 

 they hear about at agricultural meetings. 



8. It furnishes hundreds and even thousands of object lessons annu- 

 ally, which form centres for interesting study along the lines of progres- 

 sive agriculture. 



9. It supplies valuable topics and results for discussions in the field, 

 at the fireside, in the corner grocery, and at meetings of Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes. 



10. It stimulates the local papers to take a deeper interest in advo- 

 cating better methods of farming. 



11. It furnishes some exceedingly important results for printing and 

 distributing in the form of bulletins and reports. - 



12. It adds dignity to farming and pleasure to farm life. 



13. It exerts a wholesome influence in keeping the farm boys inter- 

 ested in farm work. > 



14. It leads to a substantial increase in farm profits, and to a steady 

 advance in agricultural education throughout Ontario. 



Instructions for each experiment are carefully prepared. Those for 

 Experiment No. 25 (1906) are inserted here partly as a suggestion of a 

 line of investigation that might be followed in any neighborhood with the 

 school as a centre and with any variety of crop. Smaller plots may be 

 used, but it is always advisable to have them a regular fraction of an 

 acre. A plot of one-two hundredth of an acre is recommended for school 

 gardens of limited area (10 ft. by 21 4-5 ft.). For a school test a less 

 extensive experiment would be best ; such an one as growing two plots 

 of potatoes, one on well manured soil and the other on unmanured soil. 



Experiment No. 25. — Four Fertilizers and No Fertilizer with Corn. 



Instructions. 



General. — Make plots exactly the right size ; observe great accuracy in 

 the work throughout ; keep the plots clean and tidy ; examine the experiment 

 frequently ; compare one crop with another ; invite your neighbors to see the 

 test; and discuss the results with your friends, in your local newspaper, and 

 at the meetings of your Farmers' Institute, and you will surely enjoy the 

 work, glean information for yourself, and have the great satisfaction of know- 

 ing you have tried to do good to others. 



