THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



three months might be offered to all high- 

 way commissioners and overseers in the 

 state, in order that they might be able to 

 carry out the instructions of engineers and 

 properly to care for the roads under their 

 charge; and laws should be so framed 

 as to allow any township to send such offi- 

 cer to the school. The instruction should 

 include not only simple road-making ques- 

 tions, .but such economic and general 

 questions as the relation of highways to 

 local taxation and agricultural affairs, the 

 proper distribution of highway service, and 

 the general development of the community 

 and state. A state cannot afford to ex- 

 pend large sums for highways until the 

 local officers are properly trained for their 

 duties. The whole su'bject is broadly an 

 agricultural question, and the instruction 

 should be sympathetically tied to other 

 agricultural instruction. 



Farm architecture 



The point of view on the proper kinds 

 of buildings for the rural country must be 

 radically changed before such buildings 

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