SCHOOLS AND FARMING 



" Before any reliable conclusions are 

 reached, certain mistaken notions must be 

 corrected. Doubtless the stories of farm- 

 ing by machinery and the great results of 

 commercial farming are responsible for 

 these. To the unthinking, farming has 

 come to be one long holiday picnic, when 

 everybody rides. Nothing can be further 

 from the truth. Even with the most ap- 

 proved machinery, there is plenty of work 

 for head and hand on the farm ; and when 

 it is realized that the use of all this up-to- 

 date machinery is by no means general, 

 and, moreover, that its use would be impos- 

 sible on small farms, it will be apparent 

 that there is still work to do. 



"It looks as though the same forces that 

 brought farm life into touch with the com- 

 mercial world might easily bring it into 

 touch with the social world ; and they might 

 make possible the pleasures, comforts, 

 luxuries and culture of city life with none 

 of its unpleasant features. But it must be 

 admitted that this possibility has not been 

 very generally realized. In many instances, 

 the social life of the people has not kept 



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