275 THE PROFESSION 



OF FARMING 



a few years at an agricultural college. When 

 through he will know more of soils and their pos- 

 sibilities to start with, than his father knew at the 

 end of a long and laborious life. 



Having special training for his calling, it will 

 take on added dignity in his eyes and eventually 

 in the eyes of his neighbors. A " farmer " will 

 not be synonymous with an illiterate boor, but 

 may take his place with lawyers, doctors, minis- 

 ters and others who are specially trained for their 

 life work. Hitherto farmers and mothers have 

 been the only persons with important work who 

 have had no scientific training. 



Farming under modern methods is as desir- 

 able a profession for a girl as for a boy, and any 

 bent in that direction should be as thoroughly 

 developed in the one as the other. It opens 

 another healthful, natural business for a girl. 



In New Jersey the Baron de Hirsch Trustees 

 have a farm at Woodbine, and Rutger's College, 

 New Brunswick, has courses in agriculture. 

 Others are following suit. 



There is little danger of that profession becom- 

 ing overcrowded. Millions of acres of land in the 



