THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



that while much is expected of the student 

 in agriculture, little opportunity is afforded 

 him in the way of any training that fitly 

 supplements his college course. The agri- 

 cultural colleges cannot do their best work 

 for the farms until the farms come to their 

 aid. Of no college is so much demanded as 

 of the agricultural colleges, because they 

 are called on not only to educate young 

 men and women, but also to find the ways 

 of making the farms produce the money 

 that will enable the young people to go to 

 college. They are not only educational, but 

 economic and social agencies. 



Persons seem to expect more of gradu- 

 ates of colleges of agriculture than of those 

 of other kinds of colleges. They seem to 

 think that these men will be able at once 

 to do all kinds of farm work, tell just what 

 the soil " needs," know what to do with 

 animals in health and disease, and in par- 

 ticular be able quickly to restore a run- 

 down farm to profitableness and to be 

 willing to do it "on shares. " Person^ do 

 not seem to realize the fact that agriculture 

 is a name not for one occupation, but for a 

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