breeding and the care of animals is becoming a science. Farm- 

 ing bids fair to become soon one of the skilled occupations." 



New Fields of Work in Rural Communities. We are de- 

 veloping new lines of trained service in rural communities. 

 The schools are training teachers for country schools, the 

 breeders' associations are training experts in cattle raising; 

 the University is sending out its farm managers, or county 

 agents. All along the line there is a renewed interest in the 

 development of country life. The object of this greater ac- 

 tivity has been well stated by Dean Liberty Hyde Bailey of 

 Cornell Agricultural College when he says that a good farmer 

 is a man who has the ability : 



1. To make a full and a comfortable living from the land, 



2. To rear a family carefully and well, 



3. To be of good service to the community, 



4. To leave the farm more productive than it was when 

 he took it. 



The Farmer's Creed 



The fundamental purpose of all rural economic and social 

 teaching is admirably summed up in Mann's Farmer's Creed: 



I believe in a permanent agriculture, a soil that shall grow 

 richer rather than poorer year by year. 



I believe in hundred bushel corn and fifty bushel wheat, and 

 I shall not be satisfied with anything less. 



I believe that the only good weed is a dead weed, and that 

 a clean farm is as important as a clean conscience. 



I believe in the farm boy and the farm girl, the farmer's 

 best crops and the future's best hope. 



I believe in the farm woman and will do all in my power to 

 make her life easier and happier.. 



I believe in a country school that prepares for country, and 

 a country church that teaches its people to love deeply and to 

 live honorably. 



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