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it. But it would be idle to say that in any 

 essential way it sustains the relation of 

 either a State University or an industrial 

 college to the Empire State. It does not, 

 and it can not, because it is not under pop- 

 ular control, and can not be responsive to 

 the natural impulses of our unfolding poli- 

 tical and industrial democracy, nor can its 

 practical ministrations be accepted by the 

 people as they would be if there were the 

 sense of public proprietorship in it. 



A ids to Wives and Daughters 



Up to this time we have been thinking 

 about the training which essentially relates 

 to men, and about farming operations out- 

 side of the house. It would be a mistake 

 to leave the subject without a word as to 

 the special training of the women who live 

 in the country, and as to the education 

 which enters directly into the making of the 

 farmer's home. To accomplish any large 



