Niagara County: Its Agriculture and Its Farm Bureau 2095 



must remain on the farms of their fathers, and they should be educated 

 especially for this. 



The idea of the union school system was first conceived and put in 

 practice in Niagara County. The farmers of Niagara County demand 

 that their children shall be educated in terms of farm life, in the common 

 things of the farm. How often the high school education is the means 

 of weaning the country boy away from the farm! It prepares him for 

 work in an office instead of in the fields. Every high school that draws 

 its pupils largely from rural districts should include among its depart- 

 ments of instruction a department of agriculture, established on the 

 same basis as its department of languages, and should give agricultural 

 training that will foster in the country boys and girls a love for the life 

 of the farm, a training that will give them at least as good preparation 

 for life and work in the country as for life and work in the city. 



