Agriculture and Its Needs 33 



agriculture in order to be effectual, and 

 without any definite general plan about 

 agricultural education in New York. These 

 schools will be of little avail to education, 

 unless they are made a part of the educa- 

 tional system, and they will not be of much 

 ultimate service to agriculture unless they 

 are made to articulate with schools below 

 and schools above them ; and it will be well, 

 before we go further, to thresh out the 

 whole subject and determine upon a plan 

 which will be comprehensive enough to be 

 worthy of the State and of real worth to its 

 agriculture and all of its other interests. 



Wholly aside from the absence of plan 

 about where we are going or where we are 

 coming out, it is a very open question 

 whether it will be well for the State to set up 

 a few schools of a secondary grade in agri- 

 culture, or whether we should expect counties 

 or townships to do it, or whether we should 



