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work and laboratory work, shop work and farm work. The 

 courses will lead to the professions, to business, the sciences, the 

 trades and to the farms. In short, these schools are intended to 

 do for each industry what the ^lanual Training High Schools are 

 doing for the trades. 



There is a growing appreciation of elementary work in the 

 s)eiences, nature study, some call it, and a demand for trained 

 teachers to do this work as it should be done. The Chicago 

 Normal School has just arranged for training teachers for this 

 work, on a new basis which probably puts it in the lead of other 

 institutions. Now comes the question as to wdiether the Agri- 

 cultural Colleges will long permit a normal school graduate to 

 rank higher than the college graduates. 



I found the United States Agricultural Experiment Station 

 men very sensitive about model farms. But I am wiUing to risk 

 my reputation as a prophet on the statement that the model farm 

 will be the next step in agricultural development. And here are 

 my reasons : A large percentage of farmers can not translate the 

 college bulletins and the experiment station bulletins into farm 

 language and farm practice. This must be done for them. And 

 the place where it is done will be the model farm. And if agri- 

 culture continues to develop as we hope to see it develop, the 

 model farm will continue to be an advantage even to the college- 

 bred men, just as a hospital is an advantage to physicians who 

 wish to keep abreast of their profession. The business of the 

 agricultural college should be to develop the science of agricul"' 

 ture and so it will always be in advance of the agricultural stai^- 

 tions. And the stations will always be in advance of the model' 

 farm. And the model fatm will be in advance of the great ma- 

 jority of the farmers, translating the work of the colleges andj 

 stations into farm practice. : -U 



The day for individual effort is almost gone. No greater mis-, 

 fortune, not even the misfortunes of war, has come to the human 

 race than that of individual effort, and this is especially true in 

 agriculture. Through the ages each farmer has been obliged to 

 fight his own battles with pests and soil and climate conditions. 

 What waste of wealth this system has wrought. What waste of 

 energy it has caused. What slavery it has entailed on successive 

 generations. Wliat desertions from the land it is responsible for. 

 What congested misery in cities it has produced. No, the day 



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