THE PROBLEMS OF PROGRESS 35 



recognized need of adult education, but also 

 because_oi_the isolation of the farmers, 



It should be said that in no line of rural better- 

 ment has so much progress been made in America 

 as in agricultural education. Merely to describe 

 the work that is being done through nature-study 

 and agriculture in the public schools, through 

 agricultural schools, through our magnificent 

 agricultural colleges, through farmers' institutes, 

 and especially through the experiment stations 

 and the federal Department of Agriculture in 

 agricultural research and in the distribution of 

 the best agricultural information — merely to in-, 

 ventory these movements properly would take 

 the time available for this discussion. What has 

 been said relative to agricultural education is 

 less in way of criticism of existing methdds 

 than in way of suggestion as to fundamental 

 needs. # 



THE ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS PROBLEM 



Wide generalizations as to the exact moral 

 situation in the rural community are impossible. 

 Conditions have not been adequately studied. 

 It is probably safe to say that the country envirom- 

 ment is extremely favorable for pure family life, 

 for temperance, and for bodily and mental health. 



