THE COLLEGE AND FARMING 



that he is a subject of silent curiosity and 

 sometimes even of ridicule. Often there is 

 no opportunity allowed him on the farm to 

 work out the new methods and to express 

 his new ambitions. We have assumed that 

 the whole burden of responsibility rests on 

 the agricultural college, but it really rests 

 in part on the farm. The following state- 

 ment in one of my replies is pathetic: 

 "My expectation is to go home eventually, 

 provided I can secure permission to make 

 some few improvements that are essential 

 for successful farming for example, a 

 silo." 



It is wholly unreasonable for a farmer 

 who has taken no pains to train his son for 

 better farming to expect that the college of 

 agriculture can change all this misdirection 

 after the young man has reached maturity 

 and can send him back to work under the 

 old conditions. Farming has sent more 

 boys away from the farm than colleges of 

 agriculture ever have sent away. 



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