8 BASES FOR CURRICULUM MAKING 



The Successful Farmer. 



The determination of the chief characteristics of the suc- 

 cessful, all-round farmer becomes, then, the first and in some 



ways the most important question to be 



The characteristics attacked. In view of the possible value 

 of the all-round gen- of the method used in this study for de- 

 eral farmer as op- termining characteristics in other types 

 posed to the sped- of farming, such as poultry raising, 

 alty farmer need truck gardening, fruit growing, etc., or 

 consideration. even in totally different occupations, the 



procedure will be given in considerable 



detail.* 



The following characteristics, qualities, conditions, or abili- 

 ties were chosen after considerable thought as being the most 

 usable and valuable for study. The definitions were carefully 

 and briefly drawn so as to obtain as clear-cut comparison as 

 possible. 5 Each quality will be known throughout the study by 

 the letter preceding it in the definition list. A small letter "r" 

 with two succeeding letters in parentheses will be read as the 

 correlation between the two items on this list that the letters 

 represent. For example, r(fi)=.732 will mean that the correla- 

 tion between financial success and native intelligence equals .732. 



(i) Native Intelligence: Original mental ability re- 

 gardless of education or special training; mental alertness, 

 thought power. 



(e) General Education: Schooling or education ac- 

 quired either in or out of school ; formal or self-education. 



(n) Agricultural Information: Working agricultural 

 knowledge or facts acquired by attending an agricultural school, 

 short courses, institutes or by reading farm papers, bulletins, etc. 



4. The reader is requested to focus his attention on the 

 method at first rather than on the results obtained. Later an 

 attempt will be made to interpret the data as well as to justify 

 their reliability. 



5. Other qualities such as industriousness, character, na- 

 tivity, etc. were taken into consideration, but the natural limits 

 of the study prevented any further extension of the list. 



