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alent system of education and they all 

 relate back to the schools. In a word, 

 from which there can hardly be any dissent, 

 the prosperity and the pleasure of a great 

 industry depend upon the completeness, 

 the symmetry, and the co-operative effi- 

 ciency of the parts of the educational sys- 

 tem which enter into its details and give 

 rationale and character to it as a whole. 

 And in another word, from which I do not 

 expect dissent, the states which lay the 

 most emphasis upon those phases of learn- 

 ing which bear directly upon the mechan- 

 ical and agricultural industries, and which 

 carry them right to the homes of the people, 

 will enjoy the largest commercial prosper- 

 ity and will have the happiest and the 

 strongest populations. 



New York Behind in Agricultural 



Education 



I do not often find myself in the attitude 

 of a critic of the Empire State, but it must 



