SCHOOL AND COLLEGE 



to be one of the institutions that are con- 

 tributing powerfully to the training of 

 farmers. 



These three types of effort, colleges, 

 experiment stations, departments of agri- 

 cultureconstitute the recognized Amer- 

 ican system of reaching the rural problem. 

 Great numbers of other educational 

 agencies are contributing much to the 

 solution of the same problem, but they 

 are not a part of the regular public ma- 

 chinery. In this book, no effort is made 

 to discuss the experiment stations and the 

 departments of agriculture: attention is 

 given to some phases of the college work, 

 since it is the chief function of these insti- 

 tutions to train farmers. 1 



The colleges alone cannot solve the prob- 

 lem of developing a better country life. 

 The school training is more important 

 than the college training; yet the schools 

 have really not entered the field of train- 

 ing the farmer. There is universal demand 



1 1 have made a discussion of the history and scope of 

 these colleges in Vol. iv of the Cyclopedia of American 

 Agriculture. 



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