ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS 



New York discloses the fact that farmers 

 with college training are obtaining a higher 

 income from their farms than those whose 

 school days ended with high school. Simi- 

 larly, those who have finished the high 

 school are more prosperous financially than 

 those who never advanced beyond the 

 grades. The investigation showed, for 

 example, that with the farmers under 

 observation the high school education was 

 equivalent to $6,000 worth of 5% bonds. 

 Farming is an occupation requiring keen 

 observation, sound judgment and accurate 

 reasoning, all attributes which are strength- 

 ened greatly by proper education. This is 

 so true that many men, perhaps most men, 

 are forty before they have grasped the 

 problems which the truly successful farmer 

 must solve. 



A considerable part of the knowledge 

 essential to success in any pursuit is acquired 

 by actually working at the occupation, or, 

 as we say, by practical experience. Some 

 features of any occupation can be obtained 

 in no other way. A preliminary education 



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