78 Agriculture and Its Needs 



be provided for unless after full consider- 

 ation and upon some well understood plan. 

 If the established schools are not to under- 

 take this work, and the State is to do it 

 directly, and there are to be forty or sixty 

 of these schools, and if they are to meet 

 real educational standards, then there is 

 little to regret. If not, and if some agri- 

 cultural work is to be done in the present 

 high schools, and if a small number of these 

 State schools can be firmly established 

 between the existent high schools and the 

 agricultural college, they might justify their 

 cost. But there are difficulties in the way. 

 It is likely to be hard enough for them to 

 secure enough intending agricultural stu- 

 dents and provide enough real agricultural 

 instruction to justify their cost, when they 

 are associated with a college or university, 

 as at St. Lawrence and Alfred. It is quite 

 possible, however. It will prove impossible 



