Fortunes for Farmers 



non-partisan, unpolitical, and has something good 

 for all, from the most economical way of feeding 

 a pig to the best way to fix a windmill. This 

 magazine, offered at so small a price and worth 

 a guinea, is almost unknown, and if it were given 

 away it might have no greater circulation. Our 

 farmers are backward. One owns it with regret 

 and ignores it if possible, but there it is! They 

 do not believe in education. There are really 

 successful men making their hundreds — and some- 

 times thousands a year — whose sons go to the 

 village school, and not very long either. They 

 managed, and so may their sons, they say. 



But the farmer of to-morrow must be better 

 educated, or he will go under before the attack 

 of the enterprising State-aided farmers of France, 

 Germany, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium. These 

 are studying, improving their methods, co-opera- 

 ting, using more manures, and seizing every 

 opportunity that intensive culture allows to 

 increase the product of each acre. It is they whom 

 we have to fear — we cannot escape them, and if 

 we hope to avoid a repetition of the disasters 

 of the i88o'"s, we must be well prepared. It is 

 only by education that we can expecl: to cope 

 with them. 



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