32 Agriculture and Its Needs 



that not many of them would claim over- 

 much. The fact is that nine-tenths of the 

 students in the normal schools who will ever 

 teach at all are girls. It is so, and doubt- 

 less it will continue to be so. Ambitious 

 men who go beyond the high schools are 

 going to the colleges. And the gods of the 

 Greeks, mean and sordid as they were, 

 would laugh at the spectacle of girl teach- 

 ers training farmers' boys old enough to 

 receive it, in the intricacies of real agricul- 

 ture. Generations will come and go before 

 there is any substantial result to agricul- 

 ture through the girls in the normal schools. 

 In the last year or two the State has 

 made appropriations to establish three sec- 

 ondary schools of agriculture. This has 

 been in response to a general sentiment 

 in favor of agricultural education, made 

 without very full consideration of the true 

 relations which education must sustain to 



