THE NEW EARTH 



Some time before the issuance of this volume, 

 the writer had occasion to secure data from 

 the various agricultural colleges from which 

 to draw certain conclusions for a paper pub- 

 lished in the *' North American Review." The 

 various presidents gave, among other things, 

 the percentage of graduates who went back 

 to the farm on graduation. Wide differences 

 appeared, the percentage falling as low as ten, 

 in a good many cases not rising above fifty, 

 and only in one or two instances reaching one 

 hundred. These differences are now disappear- 

 ing under the newer order, so that the day 

 should not be far distant when practically all 

 the young men and women educated in the 

 wisely conducted agricultural schools and col- 

 leges will go back to the farms on graduation. 

 Already nearly ten thousand have been grad- 

 uated, and if seventy-five per cent of these have 

 returned to the farms, each one exerting an 

 ever-widening circle of favorable influence in 

 his immediate vicinity, the aggregate influence 

 must be very large. It is this aggregate influ- 

 ence that is responsible for very much of the 

 remarkable agricultural progress of America. 

 The number of graduates must now rapidly 



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