AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



sort of crops is suited to a given soil, and 

 why; how soils are made; what makes the 

 wheat kernel give strength to the body; what 

 takes place while food is being digested ; what 

 foods are most useful, and why ; what makes a 

 balanced ration for man and beast; how to 

 make the best butter and cheese, and how to 

 rear and care for and make money out of 

 poultry, — these but suggest what this new fac- 

 tor in farm life has for capital, when he leaves 

 the agricultural school and eagerly turns his 

 face toward the farm he would have returned 

 to with an intense and bitter hatred in the not 

 far distant days of his ancestors. 



But the light of the New Earth, as it is 

 illuminated by modern agricultural education, 

 does not shine alone upon the man's side of 

 the page. Along with the young man goes his 

 sister. She must be in close touch with the 

 new life of the farm. She must be as fully 

 equipped for its broader service as her brother 

 or her husband-to-be, or the whole enterprise 

 falls to the ground for lack of balance. So the 

 new agricultural education is for both young 

 men and women. The girl not only learns 

 very much that the boy does, going with him 



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