THREE] GROWING THE HOUSE 
lifted drudgery into enterprise. The shop is a 
needed alliance of mechanics with agriculture. It 
not only makes tools, but better-rounded characters; 
and it widens the power of our young folks. 
We are living in an age of science. This requires 
that we shall readjust our land culture to precise 
methods. ‘The tendency is to smaller homesteads, 
better tilled. We are learning to intensify and per- 
fect, and so to get our harvests gradually up toward 
amaximum. In order to accomplish this, our chil- 
dren must be educated to scientific methods of seeing 
and hearing, as well as doing. Before grammar and 
arithmetic must come the art of using the senses. 
Entomology has become a part of good farming. We 
must know our friends among the insects from the 
foes. All this brings us to another differentiation 
in house-growing. We must have a laboratory — 
a room where chemistry, geology, botany, entomol- 
ogy, ornithology supplement land-culture and tree- 
culture. It should be a large and well-lighted 
room. Mine is over the shop. One corner is fur- 
nished for chemical experiments, another for botany, 
and another for entomology; but altogether, these 
combined illustrate their application to horticul- 
ture. All about us are cross-bred corns, beans, and 
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