BEADING HABIT 



leading. The " wonder s-of -science " idea 

 has also expressed itself in agricultural 

 writing, and we are beginning to produce 

 a type of literature that is unsafe. Some 

 person who is doing good quiet work in 

 the improving of crops, or in other agricul- 

 tural fields, is likely to be discovered by a 

 facile reporter, and his work may be made 

 to appear as a sensation. 



We have no history of farm life or farm 

 people. I have recently been much im- 

 pressed with this lack, when I have been 

 trying to find biographical data of a great 

 many persons who have had much influence 

 in developing good country life in North 

 America. The careers of these persons 

 do not appear in our standard biographies, 

 although persons who may have accom- 

 plished much less may be included. The 

 result is that no ideal of leadership in 

 agricultural or country-life affairs is 

 put before the boy or girl. The biogra- 

 phies that the youth reads are of persons 

 who have made their way in other careers. 

 Yet, as a matter of fact, scores of per- 

 sons whose names are unknown to the 

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