Agriculture and Its Needs 23 



factors in the problem. With agriculture, 

 as with every other great interest and its 

 attendant life, there is as much to be reck- 

 oned with outside as inside of the schools. 

 But it is not too much to say that agricul- 

 ture above almost any other great human 

 or commercial interest now claims the sup- 

 port of an adequate and comprehensive ed- 

 ucational system. 



Primary schools alone, no matter how 

 good, can not supply the education which is 

 required to make the most of the agricul- 

 tural industries. The man who says high 

 schools are unnecessary, in the country or 

 anywhere else, is behind the times, and as 

 much out of touch with rational educational 

 policy as with the spirit of the country in 

 which he lives. Nor is it going too far to 

 say that colleges are as vital as high schools 

 to a system of instruction which will be 

 equal to the demands of agricultural ne- 



