Hastings' seeds : fall 1914 catalogue . er in thiscountry. First and above all things be is a thoroughly practicalfarmer, and one of very wide experience. Second, he is thoroughlyequipped from a scientific standpoint. He is the owner of a largeplantation in Sumter County, Georgia. He has been director ofboth the North Dakota and Florida Experiment Stations, and whenthe Japanese government wanted to organize a national departmentof agriculture many years ago, Dr. Stockbridge was the man chosenand spent four years in that country. He is a man of both nationaland international reputation. With al
Hastings' seeds : fall 1914 catalogue . er in thiscountry. First and above all things be is a thoroughly practicalfarmer, and one of very wide experience. Second, he is thoroughlyequipped from a scientific standpoint. He is the owner of a largeplantation in Sumter County, Georgia. He has been director ofboth the North Dakota and Florida Experiment Stations, and whenthe Japanese government wanted to organize a national departmentof agriculture many years ago, Dr. Stockbridge was the man chosenand spent four years in that country. He is a man of both nationaland international reputation. With all his scientific and practical knowledge he has a way ofputting the great scientific fads and truths relating to farming insuch plain, simple, understandable words that even the uneducatedman is never at a loss to know exactly what he means. All agricultural matter for the Kuralist goes under Dr. Stock-bridges eye and you can rest assured that unless the informationis practical and workable it doesnt get into print through F. J. Merriam, President Southern Ruralist Company F. J. Merriam He is another practical man who has donean almost lifetimes work in the few yearsthat he has been at the head of the Southern Ruralist Co. Under hismanagement the Ruralist has grown from a little 8-page monthlypaper of a few thousand circulation to the present 24 to 56 pagestwice a month, leading agricultural paper of the South, going intonearly 250,000 Southern farm homes regularly. Mr. Merriam is a thoroughly practical Southern farmer. Heknows exactly what it is to be in close touch with the soil and de-pendent on the right handling of the farm for his living. First, inFlorida, and later here in Georgia, he has made his living and allhis living from the soil. Like Dr. Stockbridge, Mr. Merriam knows farm prosperity andfarm troubles. On his present farm near Atlanta he has to buckup against exactly the same things in farm methods and farmmanagement, bad weather and good weather con
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