THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



forests, lands, and other resources must be 

 regulated. Good highways and other means 

 of communication are to be provided. 

 Sanitary conditions are to be studied and 

 supervision provided for public health in 

 the open country. Intemperance must be 

 reduced. The labor and immigration prob- 

 lems as they affect agriculture are in great 

 need of thorough study. The woman's 

 part in farm life must be redirected. The 

 scenery attractiveness of the farming coun- 

 try should be appreciated, and the land- 

 scape features preserved and improved. 

 A new rural architecture must be devel- 

 oped. There is the greatest necessity for 

 a more fundamental, accurate, and under- 

 standable knowledge of the processes of 

 farming, to the end that a perfectly ra- 

 tional agriculture may be developed. The 

 countryman of the future must be trained 

 for his work. 



I am not to be understood as saying that 

 all these shortcomings characterize all agri- 

 cultural regions. In some country com- 

 munities, they are not marked ; but, on the 

 whole, the rural social structure is unde- 

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