34 CHAPTERS IN RURAL PROGRESS 



rural progress. The college should, as far as 

 possible, become the leader in the whole move- 

 ment for solving the farm problem. 



The farm home has not come in for its share 

 of attention in existing schemes of agricultural 

 education. The kitchen and the dining-room 

 have as much to gain from science as have the 

 dairy and the orchard. The inspiration of 

 vocational knowledge must be the possession of 

 her who is the entrepreneur of the family, the 

 home-maker. The agricultural colleges through 

 their departments of domestic science — better, 

 of " home-making' ' — should inaugurate a com- 

 prehensive movement for carrying to the farm 

 home a larger measure of the advantages 

 which modern science is showering upon 

 humanity. 



The agricultural college must also lead in a 

 more adequate development of extension teach- 

 ing. Magnificent work has already been done 

 through farmers' institutes,- reading courses, 

 co-operative experiments, demonstrations, sm\d 

 correspondence. But the field is so inimense^ 

 the number of people involved so enormous, 

 the difficulties of reaching them so many, that it 

 offers a genuine problem, and one of peculiar 

 significance, not only because of the generally 



