Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1908 — Tradition and Farming. [ARTICLE]

Tradition and Farming.

The part that science can play in successful farming is up for discussion. Ws are even told that agriculture is all a matter of science, whether the boy learns It at college or behind the plow. The ways of nature have to be mastered somehow, and it Is plain that science cannot change them. Professor L. H. Bailey of the Cornell Agricultural college says that mere knowledge of the laws underlying production will not make a man a good fanner. He must see the laws at work. The boy on the farm sees the laws at work. He may never know the why and wherefore of the phenomena dally before him, the same grass turning to wool and mutton here and to hair and milk there. But his father tells him the lesson whics he learned from his father—that it’s the right thing to feed the cows and sheep on the same grass. Traditions are the product of applied science. They record bitter falture as well as happy success In the life and death struggles man has waged with the soil. *