AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



metry. I have in mind a student who followed 

 a carefully wrought-out course in an agricul- 

 tural college of the broader type. He knew 

 quite a Uttle of Latin, something of German, 

 had dabbled a good bit in history and logic, 

 and, if I mistake not, had spent two or three 

 semesters in the study of higher mathematics 

 and the evidences of Christianity. Along with 

 this he accumulated much helpful information 

 regarding farm life and farm activities, but, 

 when he had been graduated, he was educated 

 neither for the farm nor the forum, nor the 

 pulpit, nor the bank, nor the business house, — 

 he was unbalanced, and much of his effort had 

 been a sad waste. The trouble was that the 

 agricultural part of the educational scheme 

 was too narrow, the other part too broad. As 

 a result, I do not think fifty per cent of the 

 students associated with him went back to 

 the farms to earn their livings. He became a 

 corporation lawyer. 



I have in mind another agricultural college, 

 or, as it is more strictly called, a school of agri- 

 culture, which illustrates the better way of 

 teaching young men to be farmers, and which, 

 by reason of this teaching, sends back ninety 



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