Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1912 — Proper Point of View. [ARTICLE]

Proper Point of View.

Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture was praising in Washington the agricultural school at nelL “It is a practical school,” he said. “It wastes no time on useless things. It teaches practical and scientific farming. The school’s viewpoint reminds me of the young farmer who was asked: ‘Which should you say—a setting hen or a sitting hen? “’lt’s immaterial which one says,’ the farmer answered. ‘But it’s tremendously material, on the otherhand, that we should ask ourselves when a hen cackles —‘Has she been, laying, or is she lying?*”