14 The Farmstead 



tion along technical and non- professional lines, 

 until recently, has been conspicuous by its ab- 

 sence. Prior to the present century, what 

 provision was made for coordinating the hands 

 and intellects of the industrial classes? None 

 at all. Is it any wonder, then, that the farmer 

 and mechanic, until recently, received but meager 

 rewards for their efforts? 



All this is now changed. Already the indus- 

 trial classes are enabled to secure far more of 

 the necessaries and luxuries of life for a given 

 period of work than could their ancestors. In 

 every state and territory one or more colleges 

 have been equipped and endowed to teach, among 

 other things, " such branches of learning as are 

 related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, 



in order to promote the liberal and 



practical education of the industrial classes in 

 the several pursuits and professions of life. " 

 In addition to this provision. Congress gives to 

 each state and territory $15,000 annually for 

 conducting experiments and investigations in 

 agriculture. In 1890 the Federal government 

 supplemented the benefactions of 1862 by ap- 

 propriating annually $15,000 to each of the 

 Land Grant colleges ; this sum has now been 

 increased and finally fixed at $25,000, for the 

 purpose of strengthening the dex^artments of 

 agriculture and mechanic arts. Most, if not 



