74 Agriculture and Its Needs 



titively, as well as efficient qualitively. 

 The attendance laws should be enforced in 

 the country as in the cities, even though 

 the extent of child labor upon the farm and 

 the distance of the school makes neglect of 

 the law very frequent and the difficulties 

 of enforcement very great. The course 

 should be simplified and shortened, and the 

 child brought to the end of it, with the as- 

 surance that he has some definite knowl- 

 edge and measure of efficiency, by the time 

 he is fourteen years of age. Better profes- 

 sional supervision should establish some sat- 

 isfactory basis of graduation from a country 

 elementary school, and graduation should 

 qualify the pupil for admission to the high 

 school, or a district agricultural school. 



There should be an approved high 

 school within driving distance of every 

 home. In this school there must be pro- 

 vision for an all-around high school train 



