THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



the solution of the problems of their special 

 business or region (page 6). It is no 

 doubt the part of the institution or of far- 

 mers' institutes or other agencies to set 

 backward neighborhoods into action, but it 

 does not follow that the institution should 

 forever carry the neighborhood or indus- 

 try. As a neighborhood becomes pros- 

 perous, it should be glad to help those who 

 are less fortunate. The farmer has been 

 so long accustomed to saving that it is hard 

 for him to acquire the habit of giving. 



If a stock-growing community is per- 

 plexed by a feeding problem or a pear- 

 growing community is injured by the 

 pear-blight, let the people unite and call the 

 best advice. If investigations are needed 

 that the college or experiment station can- 

 not undertake, let the people collect a purse 

 of say $600 a year for two or three years 

 and have the institution send a special post- 

 graduate or advanced student into the re- 

 gion to work the problem out under the 

 immediate direction of the college author- 

 ities. This would give the locality the 

 benefit of the most expert help at the mini- 

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