Agriculture and Its Needs 89 



district school joined with the work of the 

 farm, to support a simple, but none the less 

 a noble, civilization. We shall be mis- 

 guided if we do not continue to abide with 

 Mother Earth and follow the course which 

 will continue to make the most of her. 



And we shall be a witless as well as a mis- 

 guided people if we do not combine to ascer- 

 tain from the reports of the markets and 

 the work of the laboratories what may be 

 done without much risk, and if we do not 

 adjust ourselves to the more complex, the 

 more intelligent, and the better life of our 

 day in a way which will enable our proper- 

 ties to get our share out of it. The farm 

 house will have to have the essential con- 

 veniences and connections of the city house. 

 The boys and girls will have to have the 

 things which they know other boys and 

 girls have. The young men and maidens 

 will have to have a good time of it and be 



