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lines. The extracts of as many trades as possible must be introduced 

 into our common schools." 



When G. Stanley Hall speaks, all educators listen to what he says. 

 He said: "One of the most important and pressing problems of our 

 rural schools is the applying of the instruction of the school to the 

 practical business of the farm through the employment of teachers 

 in sympathy with farm life, and the enrichment of the school course by 

 the introduction of agricultural subjects. 



L. D. Harvey says: "There has been for some time a steady and 

 growing demand that provision should be made for instruction in the 

 principles of agriculture in the public schools. Not one in ten of them 

 can read any proper book on the principles of agriculture or a farm 

 journal intelligently. Of the science upon which successful practce in 

 agricultural pursuits depend, they know nothing, absolutely nothing. 

 And yet they are to enter upon their work with this preparation. I 

 am one of those people who believe that the student who spends time 

 anywhere in any grade of school in acquiring knowledge of value only 

 for training when he might acquire other knowledge value for other 

 purposes and equally valuable for training, is wasted time and energy. 

 A five-dollar gold piece has a certain definite value, but the individual 

 who would grasp a five-dollar gold piece when he had the option either 

 of taking that or a ten-dollar gold piece, would be a fool." 



Let me read you what Secretary Wilson has said on this subject: 

 " Colleges were orginally organized to educate preachers. We do edu- 

 cate doctors, lawyers and dentists now, but none of the schools fur- 

 nish the education they need. We must not hope to educate agricultur- 

 alists if the study of subjects relating to their profession is delayed 

 until the beginning of a college course. In the primary schools the 

 rudiments of agriculture must be taught." 



Now just a glance at what is being done in other countries. We can- 

 not do here in a country that has existed so short a time so much as 

 some of the foreign countries. For instance one of the countries I 

 shall speak about began agricultural experiments about the time that 

 this state was admitted to the Union. 



In Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, L. D. Harvey says: 

 These four countries have an agricultural school for about every 58,000 



