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ready to start farming is not preparing for to-day only ; 

 he is preparing for forty years from now. 



In one county the farmers who had attended high school 

 made almost twice as much as those who had never been 

 beyond the district school. 



TABLE 66. RELATION OF EDUCATION TO LABOR INCOME, 573 

 FARMS 1 



1 New York, Cornell Bulletin 295, p. 552. 



A high school course is worth more than an investment 

 of $6000 in five per cent bonds. We do not have figures 

 for a large number of college men, but a college course 

 seems to be worth as much more. Time spent in high 

 school seems to be worth about $7 per day to one who is 

 to be a farmer. 



Part of the greater labor income made by those with 

 more education is due to the large capital available 

 because of previous saving. But when the farms in this 

 county were sorted into groups with equal capital at the 

 beginning of the year, the farmers with more than a district 

 school education made an average of $211 more during 

 the year than did those whose education stopped in the dis- 

 trict school. 



It may be said that the more able persons are the ones 

 who went to high school. This is partly true, but is by 

 no means universal. Studies in this county showed that 

 accidents, such as the distance to school, when the farmer 



