THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



been developing and calling for men. Con- 

 sidering the limitations under which the 

 agricultural colleges have developed, with- 

 out sympathy, with the indifference and 

 sometimes the opposition of educators, 

 the very men who should have known bet- 

 ter, with wholly inadequate funds, it is 

 little less than marvelous what they have 

 accomplished within a generation. It is 

 probable that the proportion of students 

 of the leading agricultural colleges who 

 now engage in agricultural pursuits is 

 greater than that of students of colleges of 

 law or of other professional colleges who 

 follow the profession for which the college 

 stands. No one now questions the value of 

 education to a lawyer or physician; why 

 question its value to a farmer? The edu- 

 cated man will go back to the farm if he is 

 fitted to be a farmer. 



Should all the students become farmers? 



We may now consider another phase of 



the subject, whether it is really desirable 



that all the students from an agricultural 



college shall engage in agricultural pur- 



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