THE COLLEGE AND FARMING 



to articulate closely. The agricultural sub- 

 jects are gradually being systematized into 

 educational form, so that they become a 

 means of developing real power. 



Again, the student usually receives no 

 training f armward until he enters college. 

 At that age his sympathies are likely to be 

 set toward other enterprises. The com- 

 mon schools have not trained countryward. 

 So far as they train for college, it is mostly 

 in the direction of "arts and sciences" or 

 "letters." If the youth is to be trained 

 countryward, the training should begin be- 

 fore he is sent to college. These remarks 

 are well illustrated even in the arithmetic, 

 which presents chiefly store-keeping, mid- 

 dlemen, and partnership problems; yet 

 there are hundreds of indigenous arith- 

 metical farm problems, the figuring of 

 which in the public schools would revolu- 

 tionize agriculture. 



The agricultural college is now teaching 

 from the farm point of view rather than 

 from the traditional academic point of 

 view. It is near the load. It will reach 

 many persons rather than few. It is ask- 

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