THE COLLEGE AND FARMING 



efficient- thinking man can succeed ; that is, 

 only the educated man. 



The country is to offer other advantages 

 to the educated man than merely to be a 

 good farmer. There are good opportuni- 

 ties for leadership on public questions 

 probably better opportunity and with less 

 competition than in the great cities. The 

 very fact that city representation is in- 

 creasing in the legislatures should make 

 the able country representative more of a 

 marked man. The growth of the institute 

 movement, of the grange and other rural 

 organizations, gives fresh opportunity to 

 develop leadership of a high order. 



It seems to me that, by the very nature 

 of the progress we are making, the college 

 man must go to the farm. In fact, college 

 men have been going back from the begin- 

 ning of the agricultural education move- 

 ment. Statistics show that a very large 

 percentage actually have returned to farm- 

 ing, and this in spite of the fact that cities 

 have been growing with marvelous rapid- 

 ity, and that the whole system of agricul- 

 tural colleges and experiment stations has 

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