THE TRAINING OF FAEMEE8 



lump. If there is an agricultural problem, 

 these institutions are to make the heaviest 

 contributions toward the solving of it. 

 Now and then, pieces of this great body of 

 work are hit upon by a magazine writer as 

 ' i discoveries, " and he runs wild about 

 them ; but the real advance is the result of 

 small accretions. With all the awakened 

 interest and the exploiting of individual 

 instances, the townsman is not yet aware 

 of the tremendous rise in the tone and 

 efficiency of the entire agricultural indus- 

 try, which may well be likened to the 

 gradual elevation of a geological stratum 

 of continental extent. At the same time, 

 the agricultural population is retaining its 

 old-time vigor, independence, and native 

 philosophy. The student who enters this 

 field will most assuredly not succeed unless 

 he has good talents and is well trained and 

 properly estimates the problem; but it is 

 nevertheless perfectly evident not only that 

 educated men can succeed in agricultural 

 arts, but that in time this type of man will 

 be the only one who can hope for the best 

 results. 



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