INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



the program, where the exercise is repeated. 

 Many a farmer brings seed ears, evidently 

 for the purpose of showing that he, too, 

 knows. The lecture makes him modest, so 

 that, instead of parading his seed ears, he 

 leaves them in the seat or carries them out 

 for feed to his team. 



Hardly any speech could too favorably 

 characterize the usefulness of this school. 

 I know of no other industrial education of 

 similar compass so successful. Nearly all 

 graduates settle upon farms, not from neces- 

 sity, but from preference. Their farming is 

 profitable, their lives happy, their culture 

 high and their citizenship exemplary. 

 From most of the branches taught, women 

 may profit as well as men. Dairying, hor- 

 ticulture and home economics they find 

 peculiarly to their taste. The scope of 

 women's self-help chances is much enlarged. 

 General agriculture and stock rearing are 

 not beyond women's powers, for many 

 women are getting rich at them. Best of 

 all, men and women graduating from the 

 school become agricultural exemplars and 



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