340 LESSONS IN AGRICULTURE 



est waste of resources is the loss that comes to all our 

 material development, through ignorant minds and un- 

 skilled hands. It is the old curse of ignorance together 

 with the primal sin of selfishness that has led to the waste 

 of the world 's substance. 



LESSON XCIX 



AGRICULTURE AND EDUCATION 



Educational value. The boys and girls who have 

 been studying these pages and the plants and animals 

 of the farm to which we have constantly referred them, 

 may be sure that they have not been neglecting their 

 education in this study of agriculture. We have seen 

 that the science of agriculture deals not only with the 

 common things and processes of everyday life in the 

 country, but that it reaches out and touches all the great 

 branches of science and learning. In all that goes to 

 give one a modern education of culture, agriculture plays 

 a large and efficient part. 



Practical value. Agriculture has also its practical 

 value as a school subject, in that its study enables the 

 farmer to gain larger profits in his business. This value 

 may not be realized at once by the boys and girls in 

 the public schools, but in the extension schools and in 

 the short courses at the colleges of agriculture, the 

 profitableness of studying agriculture is often concrete 

 and immediate. 



An actual saving of over $1,000 in horse feed resulted 

 from the information gained by a prominent business 



