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rather than technically in the farm" (171, p. 696). Elementary 

 textbooks are not nearly so important as elementary teachers. 

 It is to the new teachers who are to have at least a high-school 

 education that we must look to carry agricultural education into 

 the rural elementary schools. It is for this reason that addi- 

 tional importance is to be attached to instruction in agriculture 

 and country-life subjects in rural high schools. A good text- 

 book with well-selected experiments, although alone not suffi- 

 cient, is, nevertheless, quite essential to any general introduction 

 and efficient instruction in these high schools. 



As this discussion of textbooks of agriculture is really sup- 

 plementary to one already made by L. H. Bailey (171), his plan 

 of chronological bibliography, with annotations as to contents, 

 will be followed. His article and this chapter, including refer- 

 ences 151 and 172202, inclusive, will thus bring the subject up 

 to date. 



