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SUCCESSFUL FARMING 



the high school are making more than those whose school clays ended with 

 the grades. In one county in New York, the average labor income of 105 

 farmers who had attended high school was $304 more than the average for 

 398 farmers none of whom had gone beyond the district school. Three 

 hundred dollars is 5 per cent interest on $6000. This investigation 

 indicates that a high school training is wprth $6000 to one engaged in 



Members of a Boys' Corn Club at Tyler, Tex. 1 

 A real school of agriculture. 



farming. Which would you prefer for your boy, a high school training 

 or $6000? 



Education is much more essential now in farming than it was twenty- 

 five years ago. One preparing for farming is preparing not only for the 

 present but for forty years of active service, each succeeding year of which 

 will demonstrate the greater need of education. 



REFERENCES 



"Country Life Movement;" "Outlook to Nature;" "State and the Farmer." Bailey. 



"Farm Boys and Girls;" "Training the Boy;" "Training the Girl;" "The Industrial 



Education of the Boy;" "The Industrial Education of the Girl." McKeever. 



1 Courtesy of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. From Year-Book 1909. 



