THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



fair return for his products. While this 

 progressive spirit has in a way touched all 

 farm life, this does not by any means tell 

 the whole story. 



"It is still a far cry from the small hill- 

 country farm to the wide western plains 

 where farming is done on so large a scale. 

 The difference between what may be called 

 domestic farming and commercial farming 

 is tremendous. It is the difference between 

 the small farm owned and occupied and 

 cultivated by the owner for a living, and 

 the landed estate owned by a syndicate or 

 a wealthy individual and farmed for com- 

 merce. More and more as the years come 

 and go, must millions of our people get 

 their living from the land; and more and 

 more must domestic farming become a 

 dominant factor in the life of our people. 

 It is with this phase of farming rather 

 than with commercial farming on a large 

 scale that I am interested, and it involves 

 at once the question of social life and edu- 

 cation of the family. After all, it is the 

 family that lives on the farm that makes 

 the problem an interesting one. 

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