THE COLLEGE AND FABMING 



ably the other agricultural colleges would 

 give similar results. I have every reason 

 to think that the replies express honest 

 conviction. These persons represented 

 three classes of students: four-year stu- 

 dents, having entered with full university 

 requirements and who were working for a 

 baccalaureate degree; two-year students, 

 pursuing general agricultural studies, ear- 

 nest men and women, well grounded in 

 common- school subjects, and many of them 

 persons of maturity and strong native abil- 

 ity, and all of them taking regular univer- 

 sity work; and two-year specials in the 

 teacher's course for nature-study and agri- 

 culture, all of whom were women. Up to 

 the time of the writing I had 179 replies 

 to my inquiries. These replies may be 

 roughly classified as follows : 



175 



