THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



"When I asked for the opinions of those 

 who had planned to leave the farm, I asked, 

 also, for the reasons that moved those who 

 have planned to remove from city condi- 

 tions to farm life and those who, reared on 

 farms, intended to return there after leav- 

 ing college. The responses are most illu- 

 minating, and, of course, they are hopeful 

 for those of us who look to the open coun- 

 try to aid in some large way in maintain- 

 ing and forwarding the best civilization. 



1. CITY TO COUNTRY 



Sixty-eight town-bred or city-bred stu- 

 dents wrote me that they intend to pursue 

 farming as a business, and to this end had 

 entered themselves in the College of Agri- 

 culture. I should explain, however, that I 

 use the word " farming "in its broadest 

 sense as comprising those many occupa- 

 tions that are directly concerned with the 

 products of the soil and are in intimate 

 touch with actual rural-life conditions ; for 

 some of these young men expect to be 

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