THE FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK 



As soon as the primary lessons, as above explained, have been 

 accepted and tested by a farmer, a secondary series is commenced, 

 which includes — 



(1) Demonstrations in conserving and enriching the soil by the 

 use of legumes and winter cover crops. These involve a simple crop 

 rotation and the turning under of green crops; also the prevention 

 of soil waste or erosion. 



(2) The value and uses of barnyard manures and commercial 

 fertilizers, and how to apply them. 



(3) Simple methods of farm drainage. 



"The third series of lessons relates to better pastures and 

 meadows and how to secure them; the most economic grain crops 

 for work animals or to produce flesh as a supplement to the pasture 

 and meadow grasses. This line of instruction is necessary, because 

 the economic production of farm crops depends in a great measure 

 upon an economic support of the work teams." 



"The general method among the small farmers of the South 

 was to depend mainly upon corn fodder and corn. Some had pas- 

 tures, but rarely a good pasture. This method is expensive and 

 causes a reduction in the number of animals kept for work to the 

 smallest number possible and a corresponding substitution of hand 

 labor. Modern methods of farming require considerable increase 

 in the number and strength of teams. Profitable farming has be- 

 come a team and implement problem. The improved pasture and 

 cover-cured hay furnish foods of great economy and are suflBciently 

 nutritious for the ordinary support of work stock. For heavy work 

 a small addition of grain to the ration is required." 



"If it be necessary in the interests of economy to produce upon 

 the farm the food for the work animals it is still more important to 

 produce, as far as possible, the food required by all the laborers and 

 their families. The family garden, the poultry, and the cow are great 

 cash economizers and pocketbook conservers and may be classed 

 with the better teams and tools as essentials to better farm equip- 

 ment." 



Thus it will be seen that he did not arbitrarily prescribe 

 diversification of crops, but rather logical development of crop 

 and live stock operations in the building of a farm. He also 



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