72 Agriculture and Its Needs 



If this can not be until boys are taught 

 some lessons, the date of entering upon that 

 process ought not to be long postponed. 



Suggestions 



In summary, I submit the following sug- 

 gestions concerning the educational basis 

 of the agricultural industries : 



There should be a complete and 

 inter-related system of schools, elementary, 

 secondary, and higher, open to all, and es- 

 sentially under the control of the people of 

 the State. 



The elementary school should be 

 within reach of every farmer's home. So 

 long as the school is adequately sustained 

 and competently taught, the location may 

 be left to the people of the district. It is 

 more a question of expediency than of ed- 

 ucational principle, and there is no balance 

 of advantages in school concentration to 



