THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



that they relate themselves to this kind of 

 work, and many beginnings have been 

 made. Naturally, these beginnings are an 

 adaptation of present school methods to 

 agricultural subjects; but the outcome, if 

 they meet the situation, will be a wholly 

 new or different type of school effort. In 

 other words, the agricultural and other 

 industrial teaching will eventually redirect 

 the schools, so that we shall have a new 

 conception of what schooling and educa- 

 tion is, or should be. 



In approaching these educational ques- 

 tions, we may first ask why some boys and 

 girls leave the farm and why others take to 

 farming, in order that we may have before 

 us some of the influences that are to be cor- 

 rected or encouraged. We may then ask 

 what the schools are doing to help the situ- 

 ation. Then we may consider the influence 

 of the college of agriculture on country 

 youth, and thereafter discuss college men 

 as farm managers. Finally, we may dis- 

 cuss the general relation of the college of 

 agriculture to the state. 



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