Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — Farmers Should Grow in Knowledge. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Should Grow in Knowledge.

His eyes should be open. It is the season for "the closest observation and study. Not a tree or plant but will repay looking at! and he should see what he looks at. It should teach him something. There should some fact become fixed in his mind with each observation. Every bird that sings and insect that flutters in his path should attract his-attention and his thought. It will bn promptlv answered tb&t tho farmer and fniii-growei-has no time for these observations. But he may have timaif he takes it. He will find the habit of observation, if once established, will not interfere with his work. The plants which spring up and thrive under his cultivation are important integers in this sum of observation and growth. Daily life should add todaily growth in the knowledge of everything about us that ministers to our comfort or profit. Too much technical "and critical knowledge of the habits, growth, natural history and functions of plants cannot be obtained by the man whose prosperity is dependent upon their successful production. These objects should be as well known as the alphabet—as easily read at the different stages of growth, and their condition as surely interpreted.— Moore's Hural Nete Yorker.