CLUBS MUST COLLECT FACTS. 105 



Let these societies increase, until their ramifications extend 

 upward through town, county, district, and State societies ; 

 and culminate in one grand, yearly convention for the whole 

 nation, composed of delegates from each State or district. 

 If this were accomplished, we could eventually so organize 

 as to control for good, I trust the destinies of a country, 

 the inhabitants of which are made up of the most energetic 

 and intelligent of the working populations of the earth. 



CLUBS MUST COLLECT FACTS. 



It is the duty of every farmer in the land to endeavor to 

 collect facts. Nay, there is not a farmer in the whole 

 country but does so, and again loses or forgets them. 

 Through Farmers Clubs, these valuable data might be 

 preserved, and eventually classified, by means of the county 

 and State societies, into definite shape. This done, we should 

 be surprised to see how long we had been groping in igno 

 rance, simply for the want of organized study. Even the 

 simplest operations of the farm, for the lack of accurate 

 knowledge relating to the fixed and simple law that some 

 where governs each and every thing in nature, is lost to the 

 farmer, and, consequently, to the world. 



The collection of experimental facts is the legitimate work 

 of our Agricultural Colleges also. These facts should be 

 supported by the results of isolated experiments that the 

 working farmer is collecting every day in the year, and los 

 ing again for the want of some place and means suitable for 

 putting them on record for the benefit of others. The ag 

 gregation of these isolated units from year to year, properly 

 condensed into readable shape, would, in the end, furnish data 

 valuable to science in the highest degree. 



Let us illustrate. The farmer, being of an experimental 

 turn of mind, throughout the course of a lifetime collects 



