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The Extension Horseman's Job

Purdue University

Abstract

It is always a harder job to do a good piece of extension work among men of uncertain faith in the profits of their business than it is to get good results among farmers possessing abundant faith from deriving a substantial annual labor income in a business. For instance, Corn Belt farmers have neglected breeding and developing good draft horses until now we hear it said that only the very skilful breeder can hope to make the business profitable; whereas it is only the odd or occasional farmer who has not paid off a mortgage with hogs during the last six years.

I judge the reason that farmers have not had more horse-extension specialists available to offer assistance is due, at least partially, to the apparent lack of interest in breeding good draft horses. Certainly it is not because qualified specialists could not have rendered much valuable service among farmers equipped for raising a few good drafters as a part of the general farm-management plan.