12 BULLETIN 213, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
farm are not educational but pertain to the management of a farm 
of uneconomical size. Since the primary purpose of the school farm 
is educational, this should not count in making a decision. The 
considerations that should decide are whether the school farm-could 
be used to make the agricultural workers of that community more 
efficient, or whether some other method could be devised to take the 
place of the school farm, as, for example, the home project. ° 
In the South, the majority of the agricultural schools have a board- 
ing department and a large farm, so that the agricultural pupils have 
a better opportunity to participate in the farm operations, and home 
projects have not been developed; but even in these schools, where the 
pupils carry on the farm operations under the direct supervision of the 
agricultural instructor, it would seem that not enough attention has 
been paid to making the pupils efficient in the ordinary farm opera- 
tions and too much attention has been given to getting the farm 
work done. Thus, the use of land in agricultural teaching presents © : 
three different and distinct problems which have no common ground 
for working out their solution. 
The returns indicated that some of the things that could be done 
most extensively by all the schools having farms are the distribution 
of pure-bred seed, the introduction of new varieties of plants, fruits, 
and shrubs, and the extending of the services of pure-bred animals 
in the community. 
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