114 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



This thinsf has been carried alono^ in other lines. I saw 

 a collection made by a boy of all the different kinds of wood 

 that grow in this section. Now, there are many of us who 

 go out driving and take our children, and teach them so 

 they can name every tree by its bark and leaves ; and there 

 are many teachers who follow along these lines, too. I was 

 very much interested lately in a little incident. We had 

 a very successful teacher, country bred, who asked each 

 scholar to collect various objects showing the products of 

 our country, — mineral, and so on. My boy selected the 

 agricultural ol^jects, and I was enabled to help him by the 

 airricultural bulletins that come to us so freelv. He in- 

 eluded cattle, sheep, hogs and the cereals ; and the footing 

 was something enormous. And when it was read in school, 

 with the mineral and other products of the manufacturer and 

 so on, in the United States, the teacher thanked the boy, 

 saying that that was valuable information ; and it was shown 

 clearly to the school that the farmer has his place in the 

 United States, and ought to be recognized. 



I want to ask the speaker one question. Hasn't the time 

 come now when it is generally recognized that scholars in 

 agriculture as well as the sciences can hold their own, in 

 liberal education, Avith those who take a simple economic 

 course ? 



Professor Bailey. I think, sir, in answer to your 

 question, I shall have to express an opinion. I believe 

 thoroughly with Professor Waugh that these men who have 

 had an agricultural education are just as well-educated men, 

 as measured by the ability they have to handle theu' o"svn 

 affairs, as measured by the breadth of their horizon, as the 

 men who have received an economic training. I don't believe 

 that our agricultural work in the boys has always been of 

 ecjual pedagogical value, — perhaps it isn't at the present dsiy ; 

 but I think on the average it is. And certainly the methods 

 of handling agricultural subjects, as they are now handled in 

 all the best agricultural colleges, will train a man's mind as 

 effectively, "will give him as intimate a hold on life and as 

 broad a reach, as anything else that could be put into the 

 school. 



