i io The Nature-Study Idea 



need more teachers for it in the colleges and 

 normal schools and common schools. The 

 teaching in our agricultural colleges should be 

 seized with the missionary spirit, with the desire 

 to send out young persons who care not so much 

 to make professors and experimenters in the 

 great institutions, as to give themselves to spread 

 the gospel of nature-love and of self-respecting, 

 resourceful farming through all the colleges and 

 all the public schools. The time is coming 

 quickly when the college or school that wants 

 really to reach the people must teach rural sub- 

 jects from the human point of view. 



We are on the borderland of a mighty coun- 

 try : we are waiting for a leader to take us into it. 



