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complished in many cases, and is arousing the 

 greatest interest and meeting with gratifying 

 success. We shall within ten years have a new 

 generation of young men and women ready for 

 college who have had their eyes opened as never 

 before to the beauties of nature and to the fasci- 

 nation there is in the farmer's task of using 

 nature for his own advantage. 



But when we have increased the attendance 

 at our agricultural colleges tenfold; when we 

 have hundreds of agricultural schools teaching 

 thousands of our youth the fundamentals of 

 agriculture ; when each rural school in our broad 

 land is instilling into the minds of children the 

 nearness and beauty of nature and is teaching 

 the young eyes to see and the young ears to 

 hear what God hath wrought in his many works 

 of land and sea and sky, in soil, and plant, and 

 living animal — even when that happy day shall 

 dawn will we find multitudes of men and women 

 on our farms still untouched by agricultural 

 education. These people must be reached. 

 The mere fact that their school days are forever 

 behind them is no reason why they shall not re- 

 ceive somewhat of the inspiration and guidance 

 that flow from the schools. So we have an im- 

 perative demand for the extension of agricul- 



