THE TEAINING OF FARMERS 



Back to the farm 



The character of farming is changing 

 rapidly. It is coming more and more to be 

 an efficient, profitable, and attractive busi- 

 ness. With marked exceptions here and 

 there, in the past we have not given much 

 consecutive thought to the business not 

 nearly as much as the merchant gives to 

 his business or the doctor to his. It has 

 been such an "easy" business that un- 

 trained men could succeed in it. The 

 change in economic and social conditions 

 is breaking up the tradition. Farming is 

 becoming more difficult, and the old meth- 

 ods must go. 



The mere growth of our population will 

 make more intensive demands on the farm. 

 We have been skimming the surface of our 

 farms and sending the produce abroad. 

 From now on, we must expend all our 

 energies to feed and clothe our own people 

 from lands that are no longer new. This 

 will demand great skill. The ignorant and 

 rule-of-thumb farmer will be forced out. 

 In the future only the well-informed and 

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