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farmer. Something must be done for the young farmer. What shall 

 we do? I thank heaven we have done something in Wisconsin. We have 

 got the educational force of the state moving. We have got the State 

 Superintendent enthusiastic and we are moving right along the line of 

 enlarging the work of the teachers. You have a grand work in that 

 line. You will do more for the young farmer, if you will take hold of 

 the educational force of the state and look not toward the university, 

 but toward the common school. As institute workers we must convince 

 the farmer that the teaching of agricultural subjects in our common 

 schools is a practical thing. He does not believe it. He stands firm as 

 a post. The teacher does not believe it. You may ask why the boy 

 leaves the farm and goes to the city? It is because it is a simpler life. 

 It is twice as easy to make a success in the city as on a farm. The boy 

 leaves the farm because he knows he does not know enough to farm 

 successfully. The teacher knows he does not know enough to teach 

 agriculture, and the farmer believes no one knows enough not even in 

 the agricultural college. But believe me, skepticism leads on the temple 

 of truth. I tell you in this case the way to move the log-jam is for the 

 Institute force to take up this question of teaching the elements of agri- 

 culture in the common schools. Be patient, we are moving a great 

 body." 



Here is still another, A. C. True, Ph. D., who says: "So far as the 

 present outlook is concerned, it is perhaps not too much to say that 

 many believe that this movement (New York) directed toward the young 

 people of the rural counties is the most important one which has de- 

 veloped in agriculture since the Experiment Station idea. The patrons 

 of the schools and the farmers themselves should take an active part 

 in this movement; impress upon the school men that real education 

 needs a help to adjust the public schools to the advancing requirements 

 of agriculture." 



Chas Skinner, a very prominent educator says : " The necess- 

 ity for instruction for our young people along the lines of agriculture 

 and domestic economy is unquestioned. The difficulty at the present 

 time is the lack of teachers themselves trained along the necessary 



