26 Agriculture and Its Needs 



actual supervision possible ; if such a system 

 of supervision could be free from all parti- 

 sanship, and if the supervisory districts 

 could be arranged so as to have the village 

 high schools at the centers, and relate all 

 of the elementary schools to them in a way, 

 there might be a universal system of schools 

 for teaching elementary English branches 

 in the country, quite as well adapted to the 

 general needs of the conntry as those in the 

 cities are adapted to those needs of the 

 cities. And this might all very easily be. 



But while the schools of both elementary 

 and secondary grade in the country are 

 serving, or may without diffculty be made 

 to serve the needs of the country in the or- 

 dinary branches of an English education, 

 they are doing nothing to train specially 

 for the vocation of farming. We have ap- 

 parently come to the imperative need of 

 training for the industrial vocations in the 



