of sugar beets to the acre, and three tons of hay per acre from three 

 year seeding ; three tons per acre from old meadow, the sod of which 

 had not been turned for years. After five years' labor, we have 

 over three hundred acres of this land under cultivation, the result 

 of which has enabled us to furnish our operatives with an abundance 

 of farm food, dairy products, including fresh and salt meats which 

 were prepared on the farm ; and we feel we have in a measure solved 

 the question of land reclamation in this particular section, which 

 to-day we by no means consider as a satisfactory result, having had 

 previously no experience in farm life, always having lived in the city 

 and led a strenuous life as a manufacturer and business man. I 

 do not consider we have achieved the highest success; therefore I 

 desire to emphasize the suggestion that has been made that the State 

 or Federal Government should establish in every agricultural county 

 a model farm under expert supervision, for purposes of demonstrating 

 the most modern scientific methods of farming, where the local 

 farmer can, by personal observation, get reliable in formation, on the 

 scientific principles of progressive farming, in order to insure greater 

 yields per acre of the crops adapted to the soil and climatic condi- 

 tions. Right here, my friends, I want to say from my own personal 

 observation and experience, with the experience of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment in the South in raising the corn and increasing the growth 

 of the food products, or meats, etc., my judgment is that the proper 

 solution of the problem you have under discussion to-day is that you 

 must have the farmer with you and you must show him how to do 

 it. Agricultural colleges are fine. I admire the interest the com- 

 mercial people have taken. I myself visited Cornell, trying to get 

 some data and information I was unable to take a course, and would 

 not care to send my son there. Very few of the sons of Northern 

 New York farmers are located there. The young men there are all 

 right for future generations. What we want are farmers to get 

 the crops out of the soil this year, 1910. The price of living does 

 not go down on what is to come a year from now. Had such a 

 farm been established in Herkimer County five years ago we would 

 have gained four years' time in arriving at the results achieved in 

 our personal experience. It would be far better if the farmer could 

 see for himself the results of soil cultivation and crop harvesting, 

 rather than depend upon the literature and discussions of these vital 

 questions. The average farmer, as the old saying goes, is from 

 Missouri, and he must be shown to impress upon his mind the great 

 importance of the greatest yield per acre. From my experience 



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