Agriculture and Its Needs 75 



ing which will fit for college or technical 

 school, and there should be a distinct cleav- 

 age in the interest of agriculture where 

 pupils will elect it. Where there is suffi- 

 cient demand for it to justify a distinct 

 agricultural school of secondary grade, on a 

 parallel with the trades schools which we 

 are beginning to organize in the cities, and 

 such course can be taken without weaken- 

 ing the established high schools, as it may 

 be in the cities, argument will go some way 

 to support a distinct agricultural as well as 

 a distinct trades school ; but I never expect 

 to concede that agriculture does not rest 

 upon a broader basis than mechanics, and 

 that the management of a farm does not 

 exact a wider field of knowledge than the 

 training of workmen. Whether special 

 training in agriculture be carried on in the 

 established high schools or in distinct 

 schools is largely a matter of expediency 



