34 Agriculture and Its Needs 



develop agricultural instruction in the ex- 

 isting high schools. The Education De- 

 partment has been multiplying and en- 

 larging agricultural subjects in the academ- 

 ic syllabus for the village high schools, 

 and we are to be guided somewhat by the 

 ultimate policy of the State in the premises. 

 The high schools, unlike the elementary 

 schools, are upon an educational grade 

 where the fundamentals of agriculture are 

 quite practicable, and where the pupils are 

 old enough to begin to have some real in- 

 terest in the subject. Without discussing 

 that, the interests of the State in general, 

 and of agriculture in particular, clearly call 

 for discussion and for a plan of procedure 

 to the end that time, effort, and money be 

 not wasted and substantial results indefi- 

 nitely delayed. 



It has not been the American plan to 

 segregate instruction and students cer- 



