80 Agriculture and Its Needs 



general plan. But the State education- 

 al system would like to know what the ed- 

 ucational policy of the State concerning 

 secondary instruction in agriculture is to be. 

 It will be good State policy to give 

 liberal support to the State College of Agri- 

 culture and expect to make large demands 

 upon it. An agricultural college is bound 

 to be a college as much as any other kind of 

 institution which claims the name of 

 college. Strong teachers and many offer- 

 ings will have to precede the coming of 

 students. No state will be likely to support 

 more than one that will make much of an 

 impression upon its agriculture. The 

 offerings must be largely in agricultural 

 technique. The equipment should be even 

 larger in fields and barns and herds, than in 

 libraries and laboratories, because the stu- 

 dent should have a reasonable English 

 education before he goes to college, and 



