THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



while to do under the guidance of a 

 teacher. Now, a man's farm is his labora- 

 tory. No one may direct him how to man- 

 age his farm; but a good teacher coming 

 to his place may set him into new lines of 

 thinking and put him in the way of helping 

 himself. In a moment of my younger en- 

 thusiasm I once wrote that every farm in 

 a state should be visited at least once 

 each year by a good teacher. My maturer 

 judgment leads me to expand the statement 

 to the effect that every farm in every state 

 should be considered as one part in an 

 underlying fabric of human evolution, and 

 that in the interest of society every farm 

 should ultimately be known to some one 

 who represents society, to the end that that 

 farm may be made a more effective unit in 

 the great plan. 



Whenever an agricultural problem is 

 worked out in the laboratory, its applica- 

 tion should be at once widely demonstrated 

 in the field under actual farm or garden 

 conditions, and this of itself will require 

 a large corps of high-class men. This will 

 relieve the continuing demand for local 

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