Agriculture and Its Needs 27 



cities. We have been training for the pro- 

 fessional vocations for more than a gener- 

 ation. There is quite as much basis of 

 reason and right in popular education for 

 the vocation of farming, as for mechanical, 

 constructive, commercial, and professional 

 businesses. 



The agricultural situation is absolute- 

 ly distinct from any other industrial 

 situation, and if it is ever met efficiently it 

 will have to be met in a very distinct way. 

 It will never be met by making the agri- 

 cultural schools of the country primary 

 schools. The children are too young to want 

 much agriculture in the elementary schools : 

 they want English, and mat hematics, and the 

 elementary sciences there. The primary 

 children in the cities stand more in need of 

 agriculture, than the primary children in 

 the country. The primary schools in both 

 city and country are all-around schools. 



