THE YOUNG FARMER 



The growing of clover will not teach him 

 that mineral fertilizer may keep up the fer- 

 tility of the soil where clover grows luxu- 

 riantly and occurs in the rotation at definite 

 intervals. Feeding cattle will not teach him 

 that a good ration for milch cows is one con- 

 taining one pound of digestible protein to 

 seven pounds of digestible carbohydrates, 

 provided it is palatable and, at least, two- 

 thirds of the total ration is digestible. Nor 

 will the feeding of such a ration teach the 

 farmer how to calculate the most economi- 

 cal ration from feeding stuffs at current 

 prices. The cause of potato blight and the 

 methods of combating it cannot be learned 

 from the operation of planting and cultivat- 

 ing potatoes. 



These are only a few illustrations they 

 might be multiplied indefinitely to show 

 that farming is peculiar in that perform- 

 ance of the daily duties does not give the 

 knowledge essential to success in the same 

 measure that it does in such occupations as 

 banking, trade and transportation. Yet, 

 curiously enough, while no man would 



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