56 Agriculture and Its Needs 



subject of the homemaking, with its archi- 

 tecture and sanitation, the matter of deco- 

 rations, the comforts and conveniences, 

 with the adaptation of foods to the family 

 needs, and the thousand things which with 

 attention will make the life of the mother an 

 easier one, and the possibilities of the chil- 

 dren different and greater than they other- 

 wise would be. And right there is the 

 overwhelming consideration to which all 

 others must be contributory, and before 

 which every other pales into insignificance, 

 and that is the public need of knowing that 

 boys and girls are the first concern of a 

 State; the public obligation to do the mate- 

 rial things which will dispose every farm boy 

 and farm girl to look upon farming not for 

 the sake of the farm more than for their 

 own sake, not as repellent drudgery, but 

 as the high grade business that it is. 



All these things are outside of the schools, 

 but they have to proceed from the prev- 



