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years were receiving an average of $847 income for 

 their services. 



The foregoing investigation is at least suggestive 

 in its results. It tends to prove that there is an 

 actual earning-capacity value in the higher agricul- 

 tural education. While the matter has never been 

 extensively studied, it can doubtless be shown that 

 the graduates of the agricultural course are receiving 

 much larger incomes than any of the classes named 

 above. In addition it can doubtless be shown that 

 these graduates are better equipped, not only for 

 earning a livelihood, but for substantial citizenship. 

 Of course there are many notable exceptions to this 

 rule, but the rule is, nevertheless, general. 



Now, if the farm parent wishes to figure his boy's 

 future on the basis of money-earning capacity, he can 

 easily be shown that the higher schooling in the 

 average case increases such capacity. In addition 

 there is abundant evidence of the fact that the 

 higher schooling gives the young man a much 

 better equipment for serving the society in which 

 he is to live. 



A SUCCESSFUL VOCATION CERTAIN 



Finally, it may be said that the successful vocational 

 life of the ordinary country-bred boy may be guaran- 

 teed as practically certain, provided he have every 

 ordinary advantage of development and training 

 of which he is capable. Train him early in lessons of 



