186 CONCLUSION 
The ambitious country boy with bright, sharp intellect 
has had held up to him only the ideals of business and 
professional life. The soil problems, the love of nature, 
the joy and financial returns of farming fertile fields and 
the peacefulness of good farm surroundings have had no 
place in his education, so he has grown up believing that 
no true happiness or financial gain is to be found on the 
farm. 
The farmer boy so educated has drifted into the 
never-ending strife and worry of city men and business, 
and our farms have lost the best bloom of our young 
manhood.- 
True, some of the boys have attained success and emi- 
nence, and maybe happiness, but the vast majority of 
the mighty army of boys who have drifted from the 
farm into the cities bear the marks of disappointment 
and blasted lives; they have not gotten out of life what 
they would have gotten had they been educated along 
the lines of scientific agriculture and remained on the 
farm. 
While we are changing our methods of farming, so 
as to build up our soils, let us so change our educational 
system that it will educate our boys and girls to live 
rural lives and help to solve the problem of the soil and 
of farm domestic science, that the fields of our farms 
will be made richer, our herds and flocks be built up of 
better grades, our homes inside and out be made more 
pleasant and more attractive. 
When this is done the great procession of boys and 
girls will be headed towards the farm, and the profes- 
