THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



advice and to look out for the agricultural 

 welfare of the people. This agent should 

 be to agricultural interests what the 

 teacher is to educational interests and the 

 pastor to religious interests. This type of 

 local leader has already been set to work 

 in Canada, and beginnings in an experi- 

 mental way are also being made elsewhere. 



2. THE WORK IS UPON US 



All this may seem to be far away to the 

 philosopher and the dreamer, but the plain 

 people are now ready. Every college of 

 agriculture receives requests and demands 

 from the folks on the farms and in the 

 rural schools that it cannot adequately 

 meet ; and something must be done to meet 

 these calls if the rural problem is to find 

 solution and if farming is to escape from 

 tradition. 



The institutions are even now well de- 

 voted to working out many such welfare 

 problems as I have sketched. The ideals 

 are the product of a few far-seeing persons 

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