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products; and third, that which deals with agri 

 culture as an industry and farmers as a class of 

 people. 



We may next discuss as briefly as possible the 

 methods by which agricultural education may 

 be advanced. We may not consider all of them, 

 but rather attend only to some of those agencies 

 that seem of peculiar interest just at this time. 



There is one underlying requisite of success 

 ful agricultural education that is all-important. 

 It is faith in agriculture. Any man to succeed 

 grandly must have absolute faith in his business. 

 So the farmer must believe in agriculture. Agri 

 culture cannot attain its highest rank unless the 

 men engaged in it believe in it most profoundly. 

 They must believe that a man can make money 

 in farming. They must love the farm life and 

 surroundings. They must believe that the best 

 days of agriculture are ahead of us, not behind 

 us. They must believe that men can find in 

 agriculture a chance to use brains and to develop 

 talents and to utilize education. Agricultural 

 education rests on this faith. Give us a state 

 filled with such farmers and we can guarantee a 

 strong system of agricultural education. But 

 the seeds of education cannot grow in a soil 

 barren of the richness of sentiment for and confi- 



