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The field of agricultural organization is an 

 extensive one. But if the farm problem is to be 

 solved satisfactorily, the American farmers must 

 first secure reasonably complete organization. 



RURAL EDUCATION 



It is hardly necessary to assert that the educa 

 tion of that portion of the American people who 

 live upon the land involves a question of the 

 greatest significance. The subject naturally 

 divides itself into two phases, one of which may 

 be designated as rural education proper, the 

 other as agricultural education. Rural educa 

 tion has to do with the education of people, more 

 especially of the young, who live under rural 

 conditions; agricultural education aims to 

 prepare men and women for the specific voca 

 tion of agriculture. The rural school typifies 

 the first; the agricultural school, the second. 

 Rural education is but a section of the general 

 school question; agricultural education is a 

 branch of technical training. These two phases 

 of the education of the farm population meet at 

 many points, they must work in harmony, and 

 together they form a distinct educational prob 

 lem. 



The serious difficulties in the rural school 



