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the general farmer abilities as a worker, as a business man, and 

 as a manager challenge the educationalist. They challenge him 

 to analyze the man, not only to lay bases for training plans and 

 principles, but to make sure that the training when properly de- 

 vised will not be wasted upon boys who may never be able to 

 function successfully in such a complex field. 



If conclusions from this study may be accepted, the gen- 

 eral farmer, to be successful, should have qualities somewhat as 

 follows : 



The qualities, char- 1. He should have slightly more, 



acteristics, etc., of at least, than the average physical ability 



the successful gen- of the community. His strength and en- 



eral farmer may be durance need not be extraordinary, but he 



listed. cannot be a weakling. 



2. He has a certain advantage if 



endowed with some generalized mechanical ability, but if too 

 highly developed and specialized, it probably works against, 

 rather than with, certain other necessary qualities. 



3. He must be possessed of some considerable amount of 

 technical information working facts available for quick and 

 easy application. 



4. He needs to have a fund of rather definite, specialized 

 farm skills, like pitching hay and bundles to advantage, shoulder- 

 ing sacks of grain with ease and harnessing and handling two, 

 four or six-horse teams quickly and effectively. 



5. He is coming to be a business man able to meet neigh- 

 bors and townsmen in transactions that do not leave him behind 

 in the game. In connection with or supplementary to this buy- 

 ing and selling characteristic, he needs certain abilities in keep- 

 ing records and accounts, giving him a basis for determining 

 costs, profits, etc. 



6. Fundamentally he must be a manager. Herein he 

 approximates the industrial manager more than the industrial 

 worker, differing chiefly, perhaps, in the fact that he deals rela- 

 tively more with things and less with men. 



