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pensable need to complete and apply the work of 

 the great agricultural institutions. As an occupa- 

 tion, agriculture is a means of developing our 

 internal resources; we cannot develop these 

 resources until we know exactly what they are. 



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 train- 

 ing toward agricultural callings are to be multi- 

 plied 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 success- 

 ful business, and for a healthful, comfortable re- 

 sourceful life, both in home and neighborhood. 

 This means redoubled efforts for better country 

 schools, and a vastly increased 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 organized. 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 demonstra- 



