THE MEANS OF TRAINING FARMERS 



The farm home itself is the most impor- 

 tant training place for farmers ; but in this 

 book I am not considering personal and 

 domestic questions. The training of the 

 farmer must be largely in the hands of 

 government (or society), both because the 

 stimulation and direction of persons who 

 need stimulation must come from the out- 

 side, and because government can com- 

 mand the services of leaders and experts. 

 Government will not impart information 

 alone, but it will set up local organizations 

 and institutions to apply the information 

 and to set the people to work. 



It is essential that government should 

 train farmers because this is the readiest 

 and most effective means, in the long run, 

 of saving our natural resources, and be- 

 cause the rural problem is in the best 

 sense a national problem and on its solu- 

 tion rests the permanent welfare of society. 

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