THE CALL OF THE LAND 



ogy is required besides, and the mastery of 

 at least one modern foreign language. 

 English is prominent each year. 



Holders of first and second-grade county 

 teachers' certificates in Nebraska must pass 

 "a satisfactory examination in ... the 

 elements of agriculture, including a fair 

 knowledge of the structure and habits of 

 the common plants, insects, birds and quad- 

 rupeds." These elements are taught in 

 many of our schools. Slender results appear 

 as yet, but all possible efforts are making to 

 render the instruction fruitful. The danger 

 is that being without proper appliances or 

 trained teachers, and hence necessarily 

 superficial, it will amount to so little as to 

 disgust many, producing reaction, hinder- 

 ing future efforts when we are able to enter 

 upon them more efficiently. Nature study 

 in the schools is very valuable so far as it 

 goes. Nature study, however, is not agri- 

 culture; at best it only prepares therefor. 



Much more is doing by the school of 

 agriculture carried on at the university for 

 students of academy grade. The course, 



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