T/o Breeding Plants and Animals. 



courses is developing into a strong apex to the country 

 life school pyramid. 



The consolidated rural school on its ten acres of 

 demonstration land, with its cottage for the principal, 

 who should be an agricultural graduate, with one of his 

 helpers, a woman, trained in teaching home economics : 

 with its fields, trees, shrubs and vegetable gardens ; 

 with its rooms for practical work for both boys and 

 girls ; with its location in a neighborhood which may be 

 made to serve as a great laboratory of Nature and in- 

 dustry, and with its possibilities in the way of traveling 

 instructors and illustrated lectures; with its technical 

 library and with the most earnest support of a delighted 

 and improved rural community with all these things 

 and more, the consolidated rural school will furnish fa- 

 cilities for some education in agriculture and home 

 economics for all the people. 



Primary education in animal improvement can here 

 reach everybody. The agricultural high school with 

 numbers aggregating thousands and even tens of thou- 

 sands in a state will be able to reach nearly all who are 

 to be our breeders, as well as many other specialists as 

 horticulturists, gardeners, foresters and dairymen, gen- 

 eral farmers and homemakers. As shown by the de- 

 velopment in Minnesota's school, these secondary 

 schools of agriculture and home economics are devel- 

 oping into highly organized technical institutions. And 

 as the years go on the technique of the subject of 

 breeding will here be so developed that many students 

 will return home not only with the knowledge but with 

 the spirit of faith which will lead them to enter the 

 work and to succeed in building up our plants and ani- 

 mals. 



The agricultural colleges, with their experiment 

 stations, all assisted by and co-operating with the great 

 national Department of Agriculture will continue to or- 

 iginate a technique of agriculture and home economics 

 which, when carried to a system of consolidated rural 

 schools and agricultural high schools, open to all those 



