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would better be organized; and the high school syllabus of the 

 State Education Department provides for this. 



In all agricultural work in the schools of the State, the College 

 of Agriculture of Cornell University desires to render all the aid it 

 can. Correspondence is invited on the agricultural questions 

 involved. In special cases an officer of the College may be sent 

 to give advice on the technical agricultural phases of the teaching. 

 Considerable literature in the publications of the College is now 

 available and will be sent on application. 



In many districts the sentiment for agricultural work in the 

 schools will develop very slowly. Usually, however, there is one 

 person in the community who is alive to the importance of these 

 new questions. If this person has tact and persistence, he ought 

 to be able to get something started. Here is an opportunity for 

 the young farmer to exert influence and to develop leadership. 

 He should not be impatient if results seem to come slowly. The 

 work is new; it is best that it grow slowly and quietly and prove 

 itself as it goes. Through the grange, reading-club, fruit-growers' 

 society, creamery association, or other organzation the sentiment 

 may be encouraged and formulated ; a teacher may also be secured 

 who is in sympathy with making the school a real expression of 

 the affairs of the community; the school premises may be put in 

 order and made effective; now and then the pupils may be taken 

 to good farms and be given instruction by the farmer himself; 

 good farmers may be called to the schoolhouse now and then to 

 explain how they raise potatoes or produce good milk. A very 

 small start will grow by accretion if the persons who are interested 

 in it do not lose heart, and in five years everyone will be astonished 

 at the progress that has been made. [Prefatory note, Cornell 

 Rural School Lea-fiet, Vol. I, No. i, Sept., 1907.] 



