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48 THE RURAL VOICE
Voice from the Pa
It's often been said: "The more thing's change, the more they stay the same."
But farm life has certainly undergone dramatic and irreversible changes.
Writer Wayne Kelly provides evidence for both views: one, the changes in
farming and rural life have been so thorough that the past seems quaint; two,
"modern" problems really aren' t so modern after all. Either way, the"voices
from the past" haven't lost their relevance.
AND HOME MAGAZINE_
FO(NDED ,em.
The importance of caring for "little changes" on the farm was often the subject
of weekly editorials in The Farmer's Advocate and Home Magazine, published in
London from 1866 until 1948. These pithy commentaries helped our grandfathers
and great-grandfathers whip this part of the world into one of the most productive
agricultural areas on earth.
(from The Farmer's Advocate, October 5, 1911)
THE IMPORTANCE OF DETAIL
The success or failure of any business enterprise depends largely upon the
attention given to detail. What other calling would stand as little attention as is
given by the average agriculturalist to his work?
It is a fact that farmers are very much prone to let the small things slip, with-
out much care, and it is also true that these seemingly trifling branches of his
occupation are in reality the very foundation of it. A small leak will sink a great
ship.
Slipshod methods are never profitable, and tend to make the proprietor
heartily sick of his work, and to also give the public a bad impression of him
and his calling. The profits are not always made from the larger undertakings in
connection with agriculture, but more often from the smaller branches which are
allowed to go untouched by the great mass engaged in crop production.
The general level of everything in connection with the agricultural calling
can only be raised by placing more importance on the "little things." Dr. G. C.
Creelman, president of the Ontario Agricultural College, recently stated, in an
address delivered in Toronto, that if seeds were hand-picked, and only large,
plump seeds returned to the soil, a 20 per cent crop increase would result. Yet
this is considered by many as a "little thing," and seed selection is not practised
on anything like the scale it should be.
This is only one of the many important phases of the business that do not
receive the attention that they merit. The scarcity of farm labour makes it more
difficult to give every part of the work due recognition, but there are many who,
even if they had abundance of labour at their disposal, would overlook the details
and exert all their energies upon the larger phases of their occupation.
Let the detail connected with the farm work be done as carefully as that of the
main branches of the business, and see if the results do not warrant the most
careful application to the "little things."0