. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, January 27, 1917] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN The University Farm By JUMP CAUTHORN. The farm, no matter how far off the beaten track bf civilization; how old-fashioned are the ideas of the owner or how run down the improvements may be, to all good blueblooded people, is more alluring than are the great white ways of our best cities, with all their thrillers, romance and glamour. It does one good and is of far more value, however, to visit one of the country places of the new-idea farmer and stock grower. Only a visit to one of these modern ranches will
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, January 27, 1917] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN The University Farm By JUMP CAUTHORN. The farm, no matter how far off the beaten track bf civilization; how old-fashioned are the ideas of the owner or how run down the improvements may be, to all good blueblooded people, is more alluring than are the great white ways of our best cities, with all their thrillers, romance and glamour. It does one good and is of far more value, however, to visit one of the country places of the new-idea farmer and stock grower. Only a visit to one of these modern ranches will give one any conception of what progress is being made in an agricultural way, and every man who pro- poses the establishment of a herd of pure bred stock or to go into extensive agriculture, should visit the leading establishments of the vicinity in which he expects to operate, before going on with his venture. However much one learns on these inspections, it is only the preliminary to what he will get by visit- ing the University Farm, at Davis. Having only left the corn belt, with its long estab- lished agricultural colleges and advanced herds of breeding stock, I fully expected to spend most of my time, when I visited Davis, in advising those with whom I came in contact, of the achievements being made there; of the results of their experiments and of the value of those institutions to the interest of which they are devoted; of the great land of plenty, where the farmer's son is born with the silver spoon in bis mouth; where "milk and honey land" first got its name. However, there was not a chance for me to bring up a subject or to make a statement, that the instructors at Davis did not show me one better, and I was amazed to see an institution so young, and only since the achievements of their efforts made at the International Stock Show known to the Cornbelt and East, achieving so much. There are no agricultural and experimental sta- tions in the United States to
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