THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



equipment may justify the hiring of a man- 

 ager for $1000 per year. 



The farm itself has a responsibility 



In a larger way, however, the difficulty 

 has lain with the opportunities that have 

 been opened to a well-trained man. It is 

 natural and right that a college graduate 

 should enter the line of work that pays him 

 best and is most attractive to him ; and it is 

 the proof of the value of an education by 

 means of agriculture that it fits a man as 

 well as other education does. If the college 

 man were content to accept the low remu- 

 neration of the hired man or the share- 

 worker or the ordinary foreman, it would 

 mean that his course of study had devel- 

 oped neither power nor ideals. 



The farmer himself must meet the situa- 

 tion. The institutions are beginning to do 

 their part. The leading agricultural col- 

 leges are now so well established, and are 

 teaching in such direct and applicable 

 ways, that they are creating a body of abil- 

 ity and sentiment touching country life that 

 has never been known before. This ability 

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