8o Outlook to Nature 



is now a shifting of emphasis in agriculture 

 teaching from the crop to the home. The 

 burden of teaching has been chiefly to make 

 the farm more productive. This is fundamental, 

 and these efforts will not be remitted ; but the 

 farmer is a man and a citizen as well as a 

 producer. He must be instructed in matters 

 pertaining to good schools, good churches, 

 good roads, good local government, good 

 politics ; he must be stimulated in citizenship ; 

 and his intellectual and spiritual horizon 

 must be broad enough to allow a sympathetic 

 appreciation of the nature of which he is a 

 part. 



Rural economics and rural sociology are 

 subjects now announced in college curricula. 

 Even college people are asking what these 

 subjects mean, thereby admitting that they have 

 considered humane subjects to appertain only 

 to cities and other assembled interests. In the 

 coming generation, the teacher in social and 

 economic questions will exert a greater influence 

 on the elevation of country life than the teacher 

 of technical agriculture. 



