CHAPTER II. 



AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS. 



GRICULTURAL education is at last recognized 

 and conceded to be a necessity for the advance- 

 ment of a nation. Our far-seeing statesmen 

 recognize the value of the scientific advance- 

 ment of agriculture and are gradually awaken- 

 ing to the fact that it is of more importance to 

 a nation than mere Dreadnaughts. Well devel- 

 oped farming communities are worth more in- 

 trinsically than overpopulated business centers. Elementary agri- 

 culture is now being taught in many schools, and as soon as its 

 real value is exploited will become the fundamental study in all 

 schools. It is already being recognized as the real foundation of 

 business prosperity. 



The farm is where sound minds grow in sound bodies, and 

 where the perfection of intelligence is attained. It is here where 

 high moral standards flourish and are brought to still higher ele- 

 vations. He who is brought up amidst verdant nature, unham- 

 pered and uncontaminated by vulgar business methods such as are 

 practiced and are prevalent in thickly settled cities, is in possession 

 of a much higher development of manhood and is apt to 

 attain such positions of prominence as will satisfy man's highest 

 ambitions. 



