INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



Demonstrations are conducted to induce the 

 doing of what well-informed farmers know 

 they should do. Model farms and creamer- 

 ies are run, model creatures and herds 

 reared, profitable feeding explained and 

 preached about, animals fitted for and 

 shown in the ring. 



Most states make it a part of the station's 

 duties to inspect fertilizers and feedstufls. 

 Some extend the surveillance to human 

 foods, and a few add veterinary and horti- 

 cultural oversight. This activity, protect- 

 ing from swindlers, helps experts to get a 

 hearing. Fertilizer information itself 

 awakens many. Curiously, the most money 

 made on land is not now made on the best 

 land. Wealthy farmers, not compelled to 

 good methods, fail to fertilize their fields 

 judiciously and are surpassed by the more 

 enterprising with poorer natural advan- 

 tages. 



In one section most farmers strongly 

 opposed "book" farming. One, however, 

 took to reading bulletins, with the result 

 that he decided to erect a silo. He found 



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