22 Agriculture and Its Needs 



kind of education which they are sustaining 

 in the applications of scientific knowledge 

 which bears upon the productivity, and 

 therefore upon the life and pleasure, of the 

 farm. 



There are two great lines of State policy 

 which our combined action ought to assure. 

 We ought to very carefully work them out 

 in our minds, have them established by law, 

 follow them persistently, and bide our time. 

 One concerns a system of education which 

 is calculated to sustain modern agriculture, 

 and the other relates to the things which our 

 combined intelligence and power may carry 

 directly into all of the agricultural parts of 

 the State to help the people of readiest wits 

 who are most disposed to help themselves. 



The Rural Schools 



I am, of course, far from contending that 

 all that agriculture needs is to be supplied 

 by public schools. There are other great 



