EDUCATION FOR THE FARMER 9 1 



tural teaching out from the schools to the farm 

 community. The school thus not only sheds 

 its light upon those who are within its gates, but 

 sets out on the beautiful errand of carrying this 

 same light into every farm home in the land. 

 This work is being done today by thousands of 

 farmers' institutes, by demonstrations in spray- 

 ing and in many other similar lines, by home- 

 study courses and correspondence courses, by 

 co-operative experiments, by the distribution of 

 leaflets and bulletins, by lectures at farmers' 

 gatherings, by traveling schools of dairying. 

 These methods and others like them are being 

 invoked for the purpose of bringing to the 

 farmers in their homes and neighborhoods some 

 of the benefits that the colleges and schools be- 

 stow upon their pupils. 



We have seen something of the need of agri- 

 cultural education, of the kind of education 

 required, and of the means used to secure it. 

 Does not this discussion at least show the su- 

 preme importance of the question? Will not 

 the farmers rally themselves to and league them- 

 selves with the men who are trying to forward 

 the best interests of the farm? Shall we not 

 all work together for the betterment both of the 

 farm and of the farmer ? 



