SCIENTIFIC FARMING.

Shannon News, 5 August 1921, Page 3

SCIENTIFIC FARMING.

;bii.,-—i liouce u parugrapii m yum paper suiting iliac trie directors or me aiiamion Dairy Co. are mailing an eiton lo induce me Department oi ■Agriculture to staro a. small experimental spot in summon, so mat imowieuye cun ne untamed oi our soil, eic. inio is a step m trie -right turecnon. iire great benefits of scientific farming as compared witii ignorance, prejudice and haphazard met nods are wen illustrated m Hie comparisons between mat am and Germany. Tins comparison is up to 1914. Tfie loiiowmg are die coiriparative results, irom 10U acres of each:—

British area feeds 45 to 50. persons. German area feeds 70 to 75 persons. The soils arid climate of Britain are more favourable by nature than those of Germany. In Denmark the difference is much greater. The Earl of Selborne, at one time Minister for Agriculture, stated that if agriculture had made no more propress in Germany than it liad in the United Kingdom during the period 1891 to 1913, the German Empire would have been at the end of its food resources long before the ericl of the second year of the war. Many.of the Shannon farmers will remember a lecture’ given in the Druids’ -Hall some three or four years ago by a Danish expert on the uses of casein. They will also remember how fluently and easily he dealt with his’ subject, I asked this expert’if Denmark educated all her people in the science of dairying. He replied, ‘‘There are a good many thousands in Denmark would consider me in the junior class.” ’• I hope the Shannon farmers will succeed, and the Government Agricultural Department give all assistance possible.. It is only by scientific methods we will be able to hold' our owiv so let us get busy without delay. Our country requires that each individual will do his best. To groan and whine about hard times in the most productive country in the world is cowardice.—l am, etc., W. MURDOCH. Shannon, August 3, 1921.

British. German. Grows tons. tons. Corn , 66 Potatoes 11 55 Meat 44* Milk Sugar m 28 ' 2