SOME THINGS APPLIED SCIENCE HAS DONE 88 
FOR THE FARMER 
- that time disgruntled settlers were streaming back from 
Minnesota and the Dakotas in processions cf tented wagons. 
What has wrought the transformation? Nothing more or 
less than the application of scientific methods in choosing 
seed aud adopting a system of ‘‘ Rotation of Crops ’’ so that 
the proper chemical proportions be maintained in the soil. 
The saine lands are now producing what means ten, twenty 
and forty per cent. on the capital invested. Where wheat 
used to be raised, now corn is raised, and where twenty-four 
bushels of shelled corn was what an acre produced, itis now 
thirty and forty, and even ninety bushels on the very same 
land. Scientific methods have literally lifted the mort- 
gages off these farms. 
Neither is it in the grain only, but also in stock, for in 
connection with the same university which has been teach- 
ing the young farmers howto raise phenomenal crops of grain 
and potatoes, they have in their Dairy Department a cow 
which produced 1,000 pounds of butter in one year, which, 
at thirty cents, would mean an income of $300. I presume 
this must be the cow whose sons and daughters were bought 
by Eastern fanciers for $5,00e and $8,000 apiece. 
The story of the development of scientific farming in 
the United States duritg the last thirty years, and the 
phenomenal results, is more like romance than sober 
truth ; yet itis true. To use a slang term, ‘‘ The goods 
have been delivered.’’ 
We ail remember how ‘‘ scientific farming,’’ so called, 
used to be ridiculed iu our own Legislature in Toronto dur- 
ing the discussions on the annual grant to the Agricultural 
Coliege at Guelph. And although we in Canada are not 
prepared to make the showing and reap the immense profits 
which our neighbors across the line can prove as a result of 
the application of scientific methods in the selecting and 
planting of the seed and in the preparation of the soil for 
its reception—it will come. 
