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there point to agriculture as the best calling for a young 

 man who is fit for it, whereas in other colleges the influences 

 are all in the opposite direction. At our agricultural colleges 

 a youth has all the necessary advantages of general education, 

 and also an education in the lines fitting him especially for 

 the calling he has selected. (United States Department of 

 Agriculture, Bulletin 138, condensed.) 



"Among farmers and gardeners not enough thought is 

 given to the whys and wherefores, or cause and effect; as 

 a rule, they go on year after year without profiting by the 

 personal opportunity afforded them of observation, or by 

 the results of experiments at scientific stations. 



"With rare exceptions the young farmer and gardener 

 takes up his work, not from the scientific side, but strictly 

 from the labor side ; and he begins at the bottom, meeting 

 the same difficulties as did his father and too often not ac- 

 quiring information beyond what his father possessed. 



"This should not be; agriculture should be taught in all 

 our public schools in country districts, as it has been taught 

 for years in Germany and Austria. It should be elevated 

 as an art; in its higher estate it is already an art. No 

 pursuit possesses a greater scope for development ; the field 

 is almost unoccupied by leaders, scientific and practical." 

 (Burnet Landreth, in 999 Queries and Answers.) 



In accordance with these ideas, the Baron de Hirsch Agri- 

 cultural School at Woodbine, New Jersey, is giving practical 

 courses in agriculture to Jewish boys, on the principle of 

 individual plots all free where necessary. 



The trustees of the State Agricultural College of New 

 Jersey, at New Brunswick, have established winter courses 

 in agriculture, open to all residents of New Jersey over 

 sixteen years of age. Courses will be for twelve weeks, and 



