38 Agriculture and Its Needs 



which will weaken them on the liter- 

 ary and scientific side, and withhold the 

 aid which they can give to the agricultural 

 side better than any schools which are 

 likely to be established? Why begin to 

 exclude from them the things which are 

 and must continue to be the widest popular 

 concern? Why not determine that the 

 high schools shall be broadened so that they 

 will meet every need of all of their consti- 

 tuents, at least up to the time when pupils 

 are mature enough to leave home to go 

 to college? Science and agriculture are 

 inseparable. Scientific training and re- 

 search, associated with practical demon- 

 strations, are the sum and substance of any 

 real agricultural advance. No one who 

 has had any experience in organizing a 

 school of agriculture, with lands and im- 

 plements and animals for practical demon- 

 strations, and who knows the difficulties 



