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economics of the household. They should be well versed in 

 pomology, floriculture, bee-keeping, the care of poultry, and 

 other light and suitable branches of agriculture. They 

 should understand the chemical and other changes which 

 milk undergoes during its manufacture into butter and 

 cheese. They should understand structural botany, vege 

 table physiology, and the various other studies that would 

 enable them in after life to become true counselors and part 

 ners in all that pertains to farm life. 



PRACTICAL EDUCATION NEED NOT BE RESTRICTED OR 



SORDID. 



A practical education, then, is what the farmer needs. 

 But need it, therefore, be an ignoble, sordid training, whose 

 only end is to fit him the better to grapple with the ever- 

 recurring problems of dollars and cents? By no means. 

 On the contrary, it should be, and it may be, such as shall 



expand his faculties and ennoble 

 his whole being, lifting him up 

 to a plane of intelligence where 

 he can behold, with appreciative 

 eye, the miracles which Nature s 

 hand is working out on every 

 side; where he must first won 

 der, then by degrees begin to un 

 derstand and perpetually admire; 

 where, if of a devout mind, he 



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&quot;&quot; will soon learn to &quot;look from Na- 



&quot; Nature s Miracles on -.-.. , ~ , ,, 



Every side.&quot; ture up to Nature s God. 



Is this the kind of education which our farmers sons and 

 daughters are being furnished, in most of our common 

 schools, to-day? Let us examine this point. How many are 



