THE CALL OF THE LAND 



apostles. Each is for the whole community 

 a center of light and inspiration. 



Gigantic and encouraging as our propa- 

 ganda for agricultural enlightenment is, it 

 is only beginning to succeed. In agricul- 

 ture, as in medicine, knowledge far outruns 

 practice. The expert agriculturist like the 

 up-to-date physician finds patients callous, 

 often more so in proportion to their need. 

 The great desideratum of agricultural 

 education today is missionary methods and 

 enterprises. We still know all too little, yet 

 could we bring farmers to live up to their 

 best available light they would speedily 

 become the wealthiest of men. One is at 

 times tempted to think that people actually 

 hate wisdom. 



When you reflect upon the numerous 

 agricultural graduates sent out, the tons of 

 agricultural books, leaflets and papers, lucid 

 lectures and ardent speeches, profitable 

 tillage, model dairying and breeding that 

 on every hand appeal to our eyes, our reason 

 and our pockets; surfeits of crops following 

 right culture, great bulls more impressive 



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