. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1910, . g or patchy appearance to the finish4 50 THE REPORT OF No. 43 when the crop is growing. In more ways than one or two does good farm-ing mean good plowing, and good farming means success, even when asso-ciated with only moderate commercial ability. There are few things of abeneficent nature so contagious as good plowing. Where the sentiment isonce introduced, it readily takes hold upon the fancy of the youth of thefarm. Where one man in the neighborhood plows well there is apt to bea good deal of emulation, and many an attempt will be made to imi
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1910, . g or patchy appearance to the finish4 50 THE REPORT OF No. 43 when the crop is growing. In more ways than one or two does good farm-ing mean good plowing, and good farming means success, even when asso-ciated with only moderate commercial ability. There are few things of abeneficent nature so contagious as good plowing. Where the sentiment isonce introduced, it readily takes hold upon the fancy of the youth of thefarm. Where one man in the neighborhood plows well there is apt to bea good deal of emulation, and many an attempt will be made to imitate hiswork. Speaking of this matter recently, Ur. Rutherford, Dominion LiveStock Commissioner, stated that many years ago a couple of Scotchmen set-tled on the famous old Portage Plains of Manitoba, and at first peoplederided their mathematicallv correct furrows across the black Manitoba a time the matter was regarded differently, and in ten years time fora radius of ten miles Scould be seen improvement in the plowing and other. The foundation of his herd. cultural operations most marked, and that particular portion of tbe plainsis to-day noted above the others for the absence of weeds and poor are possibilities little thought of in the good old plowing match. Itis plainly to be seen that the farmer of to-day is striving as he never didbefore for advancement agriculturally, as well as culturally. He is watch-ing for improvements in method and system, for the advent of the newerand better, just as energetically as his predecessor abused and derided allsuch innovations. The farmer learns most readily from ocular demon-strations. The plowing match teaches him with more ease andsimplicity than lecture or discussion ever can. Granted a fine autumn day,a field of nice sod and one of stubble, a good-sized group of candidates forhonors and money prizes, with classes for the various agricultural imple-ments—not plows alone, but harrows and cultivators—no
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