Preface 



Education. — There must be not only a fuller 

 scheme of public education, but a new kind of 

 education adapted to the real needs of the farm- 

 ing people. The country schools are to be so 

 redirected that they shall educate their pupils 

 in terms of the daily life. Opportunities for 

 training toward agricultural callings are to be 

 multiplied and made broadly effective. Every 

 person on the land, old or young, in school or 

 out of school, educated or illiterate, must have 

 a chance to receive the information necessary 

 for a successful business and for a healthy, 

 comfortable, resourceful life, both in home and 

 neighbourhood. This means redoubled efforts 

 for better country schools, and a vastly in- 

 creased interest in the welfare of country boys 

 and girls on the part of those who pay the 

 school taxes. Education by means of agriculture 

 is to be a part of our regular public school 

 work. Special agricultural schools are to be 

 organised. There is to be a well developed 

 plan of extension teaching conducted by the 

 agricultural colleges, by means of the printed 

 page, face to face talks, and demonstration or 

 object lessons, designed to reach every farmer 

 and his family, at or near their homes, with 

 knowledge and stimulus in every department of 

 country life. 



Organisation. — There must be a vast en- 

 largement of voluntary organised effort among 



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