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Such a set of schools properly equipped will do as much to assist 

 farming people as any other single institution in existence, import- 

 ant as many of them are. The providing for the instructing of men 

 and women out on the farms so that they may understand the mys- 

 teries of their occupation, teaching them to believe in it and love it, 

 is worthy of the efforts of our most earnest and capable educators, 

 and the maintenance of such a system is a duty which each state will, 

 according to its ability, no doubt cheerfully undertake. 



THE NEXT GREAT ADVANCE. 



Interstate normal schools of agriculture for institute workers is 

 the next great advance that the institute movement is destined to 

 secure. When this is had, then the great need of the institute move- 

 ment will be supplied. The need for means for equipping a large 

 number of callable and enthusiastic men and women who shall carry 

 the news of a better agriculture to farming people. When such in- 

 stitutions are established, many problems that now retard the pro- 

 gress and development of country life will speedily and satisfactorily 

 be solved. 



SUGGESTED 



GROUPING OF STATES AND TERRITORIES 

 MAL AGRICULTURAL. SCHOOL, PURPOSES. 



FOR NOR- 



Groups. 



3 



a 

 o 

 a 



3 . 

 o c 



< . 



Group 1. 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



Total 



Group 2. 



New York, 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania, < 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Ohio, 



Total, 



Group 3 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



North Carolina 



Tennessee 



Kentucky 



Missouri, 



Total 



243,063 

 118,948 

 138,830 

 165,515 

 2rj,713 

 119,003 



811,072 



1,010,376 

 160,111 



1.077,661 



45,260 



230, 48Q 



1,237,790 



3.761,678 



867,758 

 487,070 

 1,145,755 

 1,135,585 

 1,153,032 

 1,340,079 



6,129,279 



