Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — Brains On the Farm. [ARTICLE]

Brains On the Farm.

The armer who is a money maker studies his profession, is up-to-date and like the man from "Missouri, you have to "show" him. Eer the successful farmer learned long ago that “two heads are better than one," and that a careful combination of his own "brain force" with that of others in his own line will do more for him than he can hope to achieve alone. In other -words he judges success by results attained.

If you have a theory an rotation of crops, fertilization, breeding ot live stock or a method of soil preparation, you will be plied with questions and demand made that you prove your assertion by w(tight and measure.

If you claim a better variety o. | grain the farmer will not hazard a crop by planting his field until he has first put it to the test, and ifj the test is satisfactory, he will not' be slow to adopt it. The farmer may be from the 1 country, but he no longer has "hay seed in his hair,” unless by test it has proven to be of a specially high grade and fertile variety. If you claim that a certain breed of hogs will grow to a larger size, produce jpore bacon and grow larg-' er hams and yield a larger profit to the breeder, you must first “show” , him...: I

If yo.u have a distinct type of horse with the necessary qualities that make it worth while to raise and which is certain to command a good price o-n the market, you can win the farmer by proving results and in no 'other way. If you say that a certain kind of cow will give more and richer milk, yield a larger percentage of butter ifat and produce more profit on the same ratio of feed, it’s up to you to produce results. i Wihy? i ' Because the farmer of today conducts his business with good hard headed business judgment and not by guess work. This is not selfishness, it’s common sense applied to a theory which ilS® “mflilo good.” '

The fanner of has ample facilities for getting information and he is taking advantage of it to get the results that pay. Nothing has afforded him a better opportunity to study Live Stock than the International Live Stock Exposition, Which for twelve years has brought together under one roof at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, the brainiest breeders and the finest as-

sortnient of live -stock ever exhibited in amy part of the world. You can study the results of years of experiment by the biggest breeders, widely known specialists of international fame, college professors, and the successful farmers from every section of the country who come here to help themselves as! wellj as you. - ■ j Here - you will find results—nor] [ t heory. ' j ; Prize winning live stock—-which •have no peer in all the world. ! Knowledge—which will mean to! you more money and better results ' as well as to every farmer. ! This is an educational edvantag* ! you cannot, afford to. miss, and will ! i return to you many times the cost .of the trip, j Ihe 1 3th Annual Exposition will ! be held from Nov. 30th to Dec. 7th, ! 1912. in the mammoth Live Stock Exposition building at the In ion Stock Yards, Chicago. Bring the family, they will be interested, the trip to Chicago will do them good and they will go home ' with ideas that will be worth thousands of dollars to you, and it will ; help them to be more contented to stay, on the farm,' besides you will learn tlie most modern and scientific results attained by breeders who have spent a lifetime and fortunes

to acquire what you can gain in a few days.—Advt.