76 Agriculture and Its Needs 



and convenience. Let it be done in the 

 neighboring village high school, or in a 

 distinct school to be developed by a com- 

 bination of districts or towns, or possibly 

 by all the towns of a county, or wherever 

 it promises to be most convenient and best. 

 But, wherever done, it must train both boys 

 and girls, and expect that they will live at 

 home. The work must be fundamental 

 to agriculture, that is, it must teach the 

 natural sciences, something of economics, 

 much of common business usage, and a 

 great deal of the simpler phases of agrono- 

 my, horticulture, floriculture, vegetable 

 culture, animal husbandry including dairy- 

 ing, home making, or anything else con- 

 nected with the industries of the farm, so 

 long as it can be done with the facilities 

 which are practicable in such a school, with 

 the life of the home, and all the surrounding 

 environment for illustration and experiment. 



