THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



not follow that all farmers must be college- 

 bred, but it must be true that the well- 

 schooled man, other things being equal, 

 must have the advantage in the long run. 



I do not mean by these remarks to imply 

 that college men have not returned to the 

 farm, for this would be distinctly untrue; 

 but I must urge that it is as fairly incum- 

 bent on the farm to bring the young men 

 back as on the college to send them back. 

 Education by means of agriculture is ac- 

 tive and constructive: if the farm is to 

 attract the college man, it must be some- 

 thing more than passive and traditional. 



Neither must it be inferred, on the other 

 hand, that the farming business is not now 

 rising ; for this also would be a great error. 

 But, except in isolated instances here and 

 there, the business has not yet evolved to 

 the point of full satisfaction to a college- 

 trained man. The present evolution is 

 being forced by great economic changes 

 and large movements of populations, and 

 some of the conspicuous non-adaptations of 

 farming (of which the so-called "aban- 

 doned farms" is one) are evidences of it; 

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