828 Home Nature-Study Course. 



This new teaching for the farmer is a most attractive field for well-directed 

 effort. We need more teachers for it in the colleges and normal schools 

 and common schools. The teaching in our agricultural colleges sJtould 

 be seized with the missionary spirit, with the desire to send out young persons 

 who care not so much to make professors and experimenters in the great 

 institutions, as to give themselves to spread the gospel of nature-love aiid 

 of self-respecting, resourceful farming through all the colleges and all the 

 public schools. The time is coming quickly wlien the college or school 

 that wants really to reach the people must teach rural subjects from the 

 human point of view. The real solution of the agricultural problem — 

 which is at the same time the national problem. — is to give the countryman 

 a vital, intellectual, sympatJietic , optimistic interest in his daily life. For 

 myself, if I have any gifts, I mean to use them for the spiritualizing of 

 agriculture. 



We are on the borderland of a mighty country: we are waiting for a leader 

 to take us to its centre. 



— L. H. Bailey in "The Nature-study Idea". — 



The editor wishes to acknowledge the very efficient help of Miss Ada Georgia in 

 ^eparing the Home Nature-study Leaflets for the current year. 



