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Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives. 



entrance is made directly into the combined vestibule and coat-room and 

 from this again by two doors into the school-room. 



Education for the boys and girls in rural districts. 



The State has prodived liberally for furnishing agricultural instruction 

 to the sons and daughters of farmers. Already a large number of them 

 are attending the winter-courses in the College of Agriculture and the 



The Cornell rural schoolliuusc from the school garden. 



longer special and four-year courses. Gradually the state has been build- 

 ing up a class of educated, progressive farmers whose influence is felt in 

 dignifying agriculture and making it more profitable in the state. They 

 make a happier and more contented class of men and women in farming 

 than are found when the education of the farmer boy and girl ended with 

 the rural school and the surroundings of the farm home. There is still 

 much more good material in the counties of the state, and the farms need 

 the effort of skilled and intelligent workers. 



