THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



ies-of-scienee" notion. I hope that we 

 may have vision of something more real 

 and fundamental than this: we look for 

 something structural. 



3. HOW SHALL THE INEXPERIENCED 

 COLLEGE MAN SECURE A FARM TRAINING? 



I have been speaking of college men who 

 are well qualified, by experience and study, 

 to become farm managers. These men are 

 comparable, in experience, with graduates 

 of law schools who have had some years' 

 experience in a lawyer's office or with 

 graduates of medical schools who have 

 had hospital practice and more. Many of 

 them have had farm apprenticeship, and 

 have the age, business training and judg- 

 ment that fit them for independent work. 



There are other agricultural college 

 men, however, of equal ability, who have 

 not had farm training. What opportunities 

 shall be provided for such men, in our 

 scheme of education, to enable them to ac- 

 quire experience? Here the farm itself 

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