THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



landscape architect; but he does not look 

 for clients among the working farmers, and 

 he could not secure fees enough to make it 

 worth the while to devote his life to strictly 

 rural work. Yet all the persons on the 

 land are entitled to a developed point of 

 view on surroundings and scenery. 



Farm management 



All the technical special work can be 

 tied together by a department of farm 

 management, which develops in the stu- 

 dents' minds a business philosophy or sys- 

 tem. There is great need of information 

 on the planning and lay-out of farms. 

 Even in so simple a matter as the arrange- 

 ment of fields, there is need for much study 

 and experiment. The whole cropping 

 scheme on the farms should be overhauled. 

 Special investigations should be made of 

 farming systems for hill lands, now that 

 the older farming is being driven from 

 these regions. The entire subject of farm 

 accounting must be attacked in a new way. 

 The ordinary bookkeeping will not apply. 

 In visiting practically every farmer in one 

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